Tales from the Heart
True Stories from my Childhood
$14.75
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
‘I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.’
Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse Condé.
These affecting vignettes follow Condé’s early encounters with love, grief, friendship, as she navigates the pernicious legacy of slavery and colonialism in her home of Guadeloupe and a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241752432 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241752434 |
| Author: | Maryse Condé |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
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About The Author
Maryse Condé
Maryse Conde was born at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, in 1937 and spent most of her life in West Africa (Guinea, Ghana and Senegal), France and the US, where she taught at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA and Columbia. The publication of her bestselling third novel, Segu (1984), established her pre-eminent position among Caribbean writers. She won Le Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme in 1986 as well as Le Prix de L’Academie Française in 1988 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. In 2018 she was awarded the alternative Nobel prize for literature and described as ‘grand storyteller who belongs to world literature’.
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