Maryse Condé Knihy

Tituba je z dobových pramenů dochované jméno černošské otrokyně z Barbadosu, která se řízením osudu ocitla v roce 1692 v americkém Salemu. V puritánském městě vyvolá její barva kůže hrůzu a davová hysterie vyvrcholí nechvalně známými procesy proti čarodějnicím. Guadeloupská spisovatelka Maryse Condéová nechává Titubu v dobrodružném propojení fantazie a historické látky vyprávět příběh procesů z pohledu otrokyně. V románu o putování Tituby z exotického ostrova do studeného Nového světa a zpět se Maryse Condéová dotýká témat kolonialismu, lidské svobody i údělu žen. Její historická fabulace se ale vyznačuje zejména osobitou ironií, se kterou přistupuje jak k drastickým momentům života otroků, tak nepřímo i k současným snahám o napravení křivd.

Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings. As young adults in Paris, Ivana joins the police while Ivan walks the path of radicalisation. Unable to live with or without each other, become perpetrator and victim in a wave of violent attacks. With her most impressive novel to date, this master storyteller offers an impressive picture of a colourful yet turbulent 21st century.

From the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) and critically acclaimed author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. Maryse Condé’s personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles, in the French Antilles. Using her formidable skills as a storyteller, Condé describes her grandmother as having “Australian whiteness for the color of her skin...She jarred with my world of women in Italian straw bonnets and men necktied in three-piece linen suits, all of them a very black shade of black. She appeared to me doubly strange.” Victoire was spurred by Condé’s desire to learn of her family history, resolving to begin her quest by researching the life of her grandmother. While uncovering the circumstances of Victoire’s unique life story, Condé also comes to grips with a haunting question: How could her own mother, a black militant, have been raised in the Walberg’s home, a household of whites? Creating a work that takes you into a time and place populated with unforgettable characters that inspire and amaze, Condé’s blending of memoir and imagination, detective work and storytelling artistry, is a literary gem that you won’t soon forget.

Condé's story is rich and colorful and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader's heart Maya Angelou

For nearly four decades, Maryse Condé, best known for her novels Segu and Windward Heights, has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges posed by a changing world, she reflects on the ideas and histories that have moved her. From the use of French as her literary language--despite its colonial history--to the agonies of the Middle Passage, at the horrors of African dictatorship, and the politically induced poverty of the Caribbean to migration under globalization, Condé casts her unflinching eye over the world which is her inheritance, her burden, and her future. Even while paying homage to her intellectual and literary influences--including Frantz Fanon, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire--Condé establishes in these pages the singularity of her vision and the reason for the enormous admiration that her writing has garnered from readers and critics alike.

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, the story follows Roselie, who, after her husband's mysterious death, turns to her latent clairvoyant abilities to rebuild her life. Urged by her housekeeper and friend, she delves into a new career as a psychic while seeking answers about her husband's violent end. Through Roselie's journey, Maryse Conde weaves a gripping thriller that explores themes of loss, resilience, and the complexities of a changing society.

What Is Africa to Me? traces the late 1950s to 1968, chronicling Condé’s life in Sékou Touré’s Guinea to her time in Kwame N’Krumah’s Ghana, where she rubbed shoulders with Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Julius Nyerere, and Maya Angelou. Accusations of subversive activity resulted in Condé’s deportation from Ghana. Settling down in Sénégal, Condé ended her African years with close friends in Dakar, including filmmakers, activists, and Haitian exiles, before putting down more permanent roots in Paris. --Front flap.

Francis Sancher—a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others—is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Rivière au Sel, a small village in Guadeloupe.  None of the villagers are particularly surprised, since Sancher, a secretive and melancholy man, had often predicted an unnatural death for himself.  As the villagers come to pay their respects they each—either in a speech to the mourners, or in an internal monologue—reveal another piece of the mystery behind Sancher's life and death.  Like pieces of an elaborate puzzle, their memories interlock to create a rich and intriguing portrait of a man and a community. In the lush and vivid prose for which she has become famous, Condé has constructed a Guadeloupean wake for Francis Sancher.

The narrative centers on Dieudonné Sabrina, a young black gardener accused of murdering his wealthy white employer and lover, Loraine. As he seeks refuge on his sailboat, La Belle Créole, the story unfolds through flashbacks during a tumultuous night in Port-Mahault, Guadeloupe. Set against a backdrop of social unrest and labor strikes, the novel explores themes of identity, race, and the uncertain futures of both Dieudonné and the island itself. Condé's work weaves a complex tale of desperation and societal decay.

Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anaïs comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family.