A Trail of Crab Tracks

A Trail of Crab Tracks

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Author: Patrice Nganang
ISBN: 9781250872784
Publisher: St Martins Press
Year first published: 10 Oct 2023
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback

Patrice Nganang was born in Cameroon and is a novelist, a poet, and an essayist. His novel Dog Days recieved the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar and the Grand Prix littéraire d’Afrique noire. He is also the author of Mount Pleasant (FSG, 2016) and When the Plums Are Ripe (FSG, 2019). He teaches comparative literature at Stony Brook University.

Amy B. Reid is an award-winning translator who has worked with Patrice Nganang on multiple projects. In addition to A Trail of Crab Tracks, she translated Nganang’s novels Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and When the Plums Are Ripe. Her other translations include Queen Pokou and Far from My Father, both by Véronique Tadjo. She is a professor of French and Gender Studies at New College of Florida.

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