✍ Bobrick, Benson;Czar of Russia Ivan IV
📂 Fiction
📅 2014
🏛 Russian Information Services, Inc
🌐 English
⚖ 2 MB
✦ LIBER ✦
The wondrous and tragic life of Ivan and Ivana
✍ Scribed by Maryse Condé
- Publisher
- World Editions
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Guadeloupe;Mali;Paris (France)
- ISBN
- 1912987090
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow apart, until, as young adults in Paris, Ivana’s youthful altruism compels her to join the police academy, while Ivan, stunted by early experiences of rejection and exploitation, walks the path of radicalization. The twins, unable to live either with or without each other, become perpetrator and victim in a wave of violent attacks. In The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, Maryse Condé, winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature, touches upon major contemporary issues such as racism, terrorism, political corruption, economic inequality, globalization, and migration. With her most modern novel to date, this master storyteller offers an impressive picture of a colorful yet turbulent 21st century.
✦ Subjects
France
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