Tropic of violence: a novel: Novel

✍ Scribed by Nathacha Appanah

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 96 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Gaza;Bande de
• ISBN: 1644451220

✦ Synopsis

A potent novel about lost youth and migration by the author of The Last Brother and _Waiting for Tomorrow
_ Marie, a nurse in Mayotte, a far-flung, tropical department of France in the Indian Ocean, adopts a baby abandoned at birth by his mother, a refugee from Comoros. She names him Moïse and raises him as her own--and she avoids his increasing questions about his origins as he grows up. When Marie suddenly dies, thirteen-year-old Moïse is left completely alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil. In a state of panic, he runs away from home, and sets himself on a collision course with the gangs of Gaza, the largest and most infamous slum on the island.
Nathacha Appanah has deftly assembled a small chorus of voices who narrate the heartbreak, violence, and injustice of life in Mayotte. To Marie's and Moïse's perspectives she adds those of Bruce, a terrifying gang leader; Olivier, a police officer fighting a losing battle; and Stéphane, the naïve...

✦ Subjects

Bande Dessinée