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'A gripping, galloping narrative that challenges perceptions to the very last page', Marie Claire

'David Diop has opened up a new way of thinking about the eighteenth century and its hideous cruelties', Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

'It's hard to imagine a more gripping or fertile subject', Guardian

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Prais, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson is dying. His last word is a woman's name: Maram. But who was she?

Searching for the answer, Adanson's daughter discovers a journal of his youthful travels in Senegal, which tells a story of wild adventure and impossible desires. It reveals how he heard of a young woman sold into slavery who did the impossible and returned. How he became obsessed with finding her, whatever the cost. And how a man who longed to solve the mysteries of natural instead found himself grappling with the impulses of the heart.

Beyond the Door of No Return

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      Publisher Pushkin Press
      Published 8/29/2024
      ISBN-13 9781782278412
      978-1782278412
      ISBN-10 1782278419
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      'A gripping, galloping narrative that challenges perceptions to the very last page', Marie Claire

      'David Diop has opened up a new way of thinking about the eighteenth century and its hideous cruelties', Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

      'It's hard to imagine a more gripping or fertile subject', Guardian

      _____

      Prais, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson is dying. His last word is a woman's name: Maram. But who was she?

      Searching for the answer, Adanson's daughter discovers a journal of his youthful travels in Senegal, which tells a story of wild adventure and impossible desires. It reveals how he heard of a young woman sold into slavery who did the impossible and returned. How he became obsessed with finding her, whatever the cost. And how a man who longed to solve the mysteries of natural instead found himself grappling with the impulses of the heart.

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