Лучшие книги Мариз Конде

«Я, Титуба, ведьма из Салема» – исторический роман, посвященный резонансным событиям 1692 года, когда в ходе так называемой охоты за ведьмами были осуждены и казнены девятнадцать человек. В семь лет Титуба видела смерть собственной матери. В шестнадцать она была продана в рабство и отправилась в Америку вместе с пуританским священником. В семнадцать ее обвинили в колдовстве и решили повесить. Мариз Конде не просто рассказывает о жизни чернокожей женщины, она делает мощное социальное заявление: в здоровом обществе нет места расизму и сексизму.

Автофикшен известной французской писательницы Мариз Конде о непростых отношениях с мужем, возлюбленными, их родственниками и собственными детьми на фоне политической борьбы. Неприукрашенная автобиография, где писательница рискует предстать «лживой, неверной, прелюбодейной женой» и женщиной, предпочитающей любовников своим детям. Постоянная погоня то ли за счастьем, то ли просто за жизнью и непонимание окружающих.

Эта книга — сказка о современности, где на перекрестке каждый выбирает свою судьбу. Близнецы Иван и Ивана родились в Гваделупе, а назвали их в честь Ивана Грозного. Их мать бедна, а отец вернулся на родину в Мали еще до их рождения. На протяжении всей своей жизни они чувствуют исключительную эмоциональную связь, слишком сильную даже для близнецов. В конце концов сказочная и печальная судьба приведет их в Мали, а затем в Париж, где пути брата и сестры навсегда разойдутся.

Мариз Конде обращается к самым современным проблемам: расизму, терроризму, политической коррупции и насилию, экономическому неравенству и иммиграции, — как будто все это происходит не наяву, как будто все это нам приснилось.

A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Condé follows his journey in search of his origins and mission.

"Throughout her four-decade literary career, the Guadeloupean writer has explored a global vision of the Black diaspora, and placed Caribbean life at the center. In the past few years, Condé has been showered with honors and accolades across the globe. The Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat sees Condé as a “giant of literature,” whose prolific work connects continents and generations. One thing is certain: Condé is finally receiving the acclaim her wide-ranging body of work deserves.” ——Anderson Tepper, The New York Times

One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: “A miracle!” Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal? For all its beauty, vivacity, humor, and power, Maryse Condé’s latest novel is above all a work of combat. Lucid and full of conviction, Condé attests that solidarity and love remain our most extraordinary and lifesaving forces.

De la Guadeloupe des annees 1950 jusqu'aux premieres annees etudiantes a Paris, Maryse Conde se livre ici par fragments. Derniere-nee d'une famille nombreuse de la bourgeoisie noire de Pointe-a-Pitre, Maryse grandit dans un univers fait de contradictions. A travers les epreuves initiatiques de l'amour, la mort, l'amitie, le racisme ou la nostalgie, on la voit quitter peu a peu lenfance. Et sur le chemin de l'age adulte, decouvrir sa vocation decrivain.
Souvenirs doux-amers d'une auteure engagee dans son epoque, internationalement reconnue.

One dark night in Cape Town, Rosélie's husband goes out for a pack of cigarettes and never comes back. Not only is she left with unanswered questions about his violent death but she is also left without any means of support. At the urging of her housekeeper and best friend, the new widow decides to take advantage of the strange gifts she has always possessed and embarks on a career as a clairvoyant. As Rosélie builds a new life for herself and seeks the truth about her husband's murder, acclaimed Caribbean author Maryse Condé crafts a deft exploration of post-apartheid South Africa and a smart, gripping thriller.

The Story of the Cannibal Woman is both contemporary and international, following the lives of an interracial, intercultural couple in New York City, Tokyo, and Capetown. Maryse Condé is known for vibrantly lyrical language and fearless, inventive storytelling -- she uses both to stunning effect in this magnificently original novel.

On one hand, beautiful Celanire -- a woman mutilated at birth and left for dead -- appears today to be a saint; she is a tireless worker who has turned numerous neglected institutions into vibrant schools for motherless children. But she is also a woman apprehended by demons, as death and misfortune seem to follow in her wake. Traveling from Guadeloupe to West Africa to Peru, the mysterious, seductive, and disarming Celanire is driven to uncover the truth of her past at any cost and avenge the crimes committed against her.

With her characteristic blend of magical realism and fantasy, and inspired by a true story, Maryse Conde hauntingly imagines Celanire in an unforgettable novel -- a most dazzling addition to the deeply prolific and widely celebrated author's brilliant body of work.

A powerfully redemptive novel about one woman's search for herself--from Guadeloupe to France to the United States

Ranelise is a cook in the small village of La Pointe in Guadeloupe where she rescues a teenage girl from suicide by drowning. The girl, Reynalda Titane, lives at the local jeweler's grand house where her mother, Nina, is a maid. Reynalda is pregnant and in a state of despair. Ranelise cares for her and the child, christened Marie-Noelle, but Reynalda soon flees to France, intent upon getting the education to allow her to rise above her mother's fate.

Desirada is the story of Marie-Noelle and her quest to understand the mother who abandoned her, and discover the identity of her father, despite the opposing stories from her mother and her grandmother. It is also the story of generations of island women and the pursuit of a meaningful life despite a tainted personal history.

Desirada was awarded the prestigious Prix Carbet de la Caraibe in 1998 given for the best book by a Caribbean author. It is Ms. Conde's twelfth novel.