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"When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking for her elusive brother, Lazare, the world already seems a plenty confusing place.
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Contemporary, prestige, open-ended and grave.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Marie NDiaye
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Bison Books, Inquilinos Produção Cultural e Comércio Ltda, Suhrkamp
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, French, Portuguese, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9783518462713
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