Maryse Conde

Shortlisted, International Booker Prize 2023 A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumoured to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Condé follows his journey in search of his origins and mission. One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: 'A miracle!' Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with grey-green eyes like...

Waiting for the Waters to Rise tells the story of Babakar, an African doctor living in solitude until the young child Anas changes everything. Forced to abandon his isolation, Babakar takes Anas on a journey to Haiti in search of her family. Babakar, burdened by memories of his childhood in Mali, lives alone with only visions of his blue-eyed mother...