Book information
Penguin Books Ltd
UK
2017
Paperback
512
Standard
306357
978-0-241-29351-5
0-241-29351-0
Historical fiction
Annotation
Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature 2018. The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Change is coming. From the East, a new religion, Islam. From the West, the slave trade. These forces will tear his country, his village and the lives of his beloved sons apart, in Maryse Conde's glittering epic.
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