La Saison de l'ombre

Prix Femina · 2013 · Winner

GrassetAugust 22, 2013Literary Fiction Historical Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Femina	2013	Winner

About This Book

A historical novel set in an 18th-century village on the coast of Cameroon, following women who search for their disappeared sons and husbands taken by the Atlantic slave trade, a profound act of historical imagination.

About the Author

Léonora MianoCM

Léonora Miano is a Cameroonian-French novelist born in 1973 in Douala. She moved to France at the age of eighteen to study English literature and has lived there since. Her fiction engages with the history and present of sub-Saharan Africa, Afro-European identity, and the legacy of slavery and colonialism with uncompromising political and literary intelligence. Read more →