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The Story of the Cannibal Woman

by Maryse Conde

Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2008 · Shortlist
Atria BooksLiterary FictionISBN 9780743271264

Award History

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Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)2008Shortlist

About This Book

A Guadeloupean woman living in Cape Town, South Africa, with her white companion grapples with grief, displacement, and racial identity after his sudden death, as she becomes a suspect in his murder. Translated from the French. Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.

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