Ségou - tome 2 La terre en miettes - COLLECTOR

by Maryse Condé

640 pages

Published October 17, 2024

About the author

Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu. Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in English. In 1959, she married Mamadou Condé, an Guinean actor. After graduating, she taught in Guinea, Ghana, and Senegal. In 1981, she divorced, but the following year married Richard Philcox, English language translator of most of her novels.

Condé's novels explore racial, gender, and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trials in I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and the 19th century Bambara Empire of Mali in Segu.

In addition to her writings, Condé had a distinguished academic career. In 2004 she retired from Columbia University as Professor Emeritus of French. She had previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, the Sorbonne, The University of Virginia, and the University of Nanterre.

In March 2007, Condé was the keynote speaker at Franklin College Switzerland's Caribbean Unbound III conference, in Lugano, Switzerland.

Reviews

[Maylie S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Le tome 2 est centrée sur la 2eme génération des Traoré. Malgré leurs convictions et croyances individuelles : il leur reste univers central qui les réunit tous : SÉGOU. J’aimerais tellement que ces tomes soient adaptés pour le petit écran sous forme de série.

[adeline Bronner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chef d’oeuvre

[Alexia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Suite tout aussi passionnante même si on s'accroche un peu moins aux personnages avec lesquels on passe moins de temps que dans le premier tome.