Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood

Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood - Paperback

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Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood - Paperback

Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood - Paperback

by Maryse Conde
$21.00
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by Maryse Conde (Author)

Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents' feelings of alienation; her first crush; a falling out with her best friend; the death of her beloved grandmother; her first encounter with racism.

These gemlike vignettes capture the spirit of Condé's fiction: haunting, powerful, poignant, and leavened with a streak of humor.

Author Biography

Maryse Condé is the author of I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem, Tree of Life, Crossing the Mangrove, and The Last of the African Kings, among others. She is the recipient of the prestigious French award, the alternative Nobel Prize for literature, Le Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She is a professor of French Caribbean Literature at Columbia University. She and her husband Richard Philcox, who masterfully translated Windward Heights, divide their time between New York City and Guadeloupe.

Number of Pages: 158
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
ISBN9781569473474
Author Maryse Conde
PublisherSoho Press
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2004
LanguageENG- English
Pages158
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Maryse Condé was Professor Emerita of French at Columbia University and author of the internationally celebrated novels Segu and The Belle Créole (Virginia). In 2018 she won the prestigious New Academy Prize in Literature. Angela Y. Davis is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ann Armstrong Scarboro is president of Mosaic Media and producer, with Susan Wilcox of Full Duck Productions, of the series Ethnic Expressions from the Mosaic of the Americas. Richard Philcox is the English-language translator of many of Condé's novels.

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