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Item Details
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MACADAM DREAMS
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| By: |
Gisele Pineau, C. Dickson (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803287739 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803287730 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2003 |
| Pages: |
215 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Talks about the two cataclysms that devastated Eliette's life: the cyclone of 1928, when she was eight years old, and the Hurricane Hugo, whose destruction shatters the elaborate defenses the old woman has built around the sorrows of her life in the town of Savane Mulet. This is a novel about the wayward violence of love and nature in Guadeloupe. |
| Synopsis: |
A cyclone inexorably sweeps Eliette into her past in this novel about the wayward violence of love and nature in Guadeloupe. In Macadam Dreams the celebrated Creole writer Gisele Pineau cunningly unveils the two cataclysms that have devastated Eliette's life: first, the cyclone of 1928, when she was only eight years old, and now, Hurricane Hugo, whose destruction shatters the elaborate defenses the old woman has built around the sorrows and madness of her life in the small, accursed town of Savane Mulet. As Hugo unleashes its fury, a final blow frees Eliette's repressed memories of madness, isolation, and loss, and of the grievous failure of a prophecy that promised her a child. A story of self-discovery, Macadam Dreams speaks eloquently of the violence and poverty endured by women of this island nation-violence every bit as devastating, and seemingly inescapable, as the perpetually returning cyclone. Viewed by many as a canonical author in the Creole movement in Francophone literature, Pineau has created an extraordinary work that is recognized as a masterpiece of French-Caribbean literature. |
| Publication: |
US |
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University of Nebraska Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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