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Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? by Maryse Conde — book cover

Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?

by Maryse Conde

Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2005 · Winner
Atria BooksLiterary FictionISBN 9780743482790

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)2005Winner

About This Book

A fantastical novel tracing the mysterious Celanire, a woman with a scar across her throat, from colonial Ivory Coast to Guadeloupe to Peru, leaving a trail of seduction and death in her wake. Translated from the French by Richard Philcox. Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.

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