I write in Condé
Alexandra Reza, 12 May 2022
Crossing the Mangrove
by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox.
Penguin, 170 pp., £9.99, September 2021,978 0 241 53005 4 Show More
by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox.
Penguin, 170 pp., £9.99, September 2021,
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox.
World Editions, 282 pp., £12.99, August 2021,978 1 912987 15 3 Show More
by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox.
World Editions, 282 pp., £12.99, August 2021,
L’Évangile du nouveau monde
by Maryse Condé.
Buchet Chastel, 287 pp., €20, September 2021,978 2 283 03544 3 Show More
by Maryse Condé.
Buchet Chastel, 287 pp., €20, September 2021,
“... lack of interest in translations of her work. These have mostly been undertaken by her husband, Richard Philcox, with a sometimes heavy hand; she doesn’t read them.) Her novels of that decade – Tree of Life and The Last of the African Kings, for instance – range around the African diaspora. Her restlessness is a rejoinder to the idea that ... ”
