Tales from the Heart
Author: Condé, Maryse
ISBN: 9781569473474
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Jan 2004
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature/b>br>br>In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Conde vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning- discovering her parents' feelings of alienation; her first crush; a falling out with her best friend; the death of her beloved grandmother; her first encounter with racism. br>br>These gemlike vignettes capture the spirit of Conde's fiction- haunting, powerful, poignant, and leavened with a streak of humor.
ISBN: 9781569473474
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Jan 2004
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature/b>br>br>In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Conde vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning- discovering her parents' feelings of alienation; her first crush; a falling out with her best friend; the death of her beloved grandmother; her first encounter with racism. br>br>These gemlike vignettes capture the spirit of Conde's fiction- haunting, powerful, poignant, and leavened with a streak of humor.
