Tropic of Violence

Author : Nathacha Appanah

Paperback

Published : Thursday 18 October 2018

ISBN : 9780857057730

Price : €15.65

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Tropic of Violence

by Nathacha Appanah

Paperback

18 Oct 2018

FICTION
>> Literary

€15.65

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Nathacha Appanah returns with a powerful, beautiful novel about lost youth on a far-flung, forgotten island

Marie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby and names him Moise, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up, Moise struggles with his status as an outsider and to understand why he was abandoned as a baby. When Marie dies, he is left alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil, ending up in the largest and most infamous slum on Mayotte, nicknamed Gaza. Narrated by five different characters, Tropic of Violence is an exploration of lost youth on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Shining a powerful light on problems of violence, immigration, identity, deprivation and isolation on this island that became a French departement in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that draws on the author's own observations from her time on Mayotte.

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