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Tales from the Heart

True Stories from my Childhood
By Maryse Condé
Series: Penguin Archive
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future. Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse Condé.... Read More
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Tales from the Heart

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.

Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse Condé.

These affecting vignettes follow Condé's early encounters with love, grief, and friendship, as she navigates the pernicious legacy of slavery and colonialism in her home of Guadeloupe and as a student in Paris.

Series: Penguin Archive

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241752432

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 90g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir History & Military Maryse Condé Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Archive

About the Author

Maryse Conde was born at Pointe- -Pitre, Guadeloupe, in 1937 and spent most of her life in West Africa (Guinea, Ghana and Senegal), France and the US, where she taught at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA and Columbia. The publication of her bestselling third novel, Segu (1984), established her pre-eminent position among Caribbean writers. She won Le Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme in 1986 as well as Le Prix de L'Academie Fran aise in 1988 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. In 2018 she was awarded the alternative Nobel prize for literature and described as 'grand storyteller who belongs to world literature'.

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