Paule Constant

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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The Governor’s Daughter is an extraordinary tale of innocence adrift in a monstrous world. Set just after World War I in the French penal colony in Cayenne, French Guiana, it is the story of Chrétienne, the seven-year-old daughter of the colony’...

• Sep-2001
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at the height of her powers. It is fiction that leads readers through fascinating chambers of life where autobiography is ...

• Jul-2005
• / General Fiction
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Paule Constant's OUREGANO, originally published in France in 1980, received the Prix Valéry Larbaud and was a finalist for the prestigious Prix Goncourt. The novel is a scathing indictment of the self-absorbed consciousness responsible for individua...

• Apr-2006
• / Literary
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After answering a classified ad placed by an import-export company looking for energetic young men willing to take on responsibilities for its African branches no diploma required Victor finds himself on The Will of God, a dilapidated boat heading in...

• Oct-2011
• / Literary
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When Tiffany Murano’s parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial Africa, she loses the natural world, the people, and the animals she knows and ...