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ISBN: 9781642860696
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2020
Publisher: World Editions
Description:
Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another.
When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow apart, until, as young adults in Paris, Ivana's youthful altruism compels her to join the police academy, while Ivan, stunted by early experiences of rejection and exploitation, walks the path of radicalization. The twins, unable to live either with or without each other, become perpetrator and victim in a wave of violent attacks.
In The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, Maryse Condé, winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature, touches upon major contemporary issues such as racism, terrorism, political corruption, economic inequality, globalization, and migration. With her most modern novel to date, this master storyteller offers an impressive picture of a colorful yet turbulent 21st century.
'Scandal is at the
center of two of Condé's newly translated novels, both of which show her at her
signature best: offering complex, polyphonic and ultimately shattering stories
whose provocations linger long after their final pages.The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, one of many works wryly rendered in English by
Condé's translator husband, was written in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo
attacks in Paris and takes on the feedback loop of global inequity and
radicalisation. The conceit is deceptively straightforward: Ivan and Ivana are
twins born to a single Guadeloupean mother, and as they grow up they adore each
other above all else in
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2020
Publisher: World Editions
Description:
Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another.
When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow apart, until, as young adults in Paris, Ivana's youthful altruism compels her to join the police academy, while Ivan, stunted by early experiences of rejection and exploitation, walks the path of radicalization. The twins, unable to live either with or without each other, become perpetrator and victim in a wave of violent attacks.
In The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, Maryse Condé, winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature, touches upon major contemporary issues such as racism, terrorism, political corruption, economic inequality, globalization, and migration. With her most modern novel to date, this master storyteller offers an impressive picture of a colorful yet turbulent 21st century.
'Scandal is at the
center of two of Condé's newly translated novels, both of which show her at her
signature best: offering complex, polyphonic and ultimately shattering stories
whose provocations linger long after their final pages.The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, one of many works wryly rendered in English by
Condé's translator husband, was written in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo
attacks in Paris and takes on the feedback loop of global inequity and
radicalisation. The conceit is deceptively straightforward: Ivan and Ivana are
twins born to a single Guadeloupean mother, and as they grow up they adore each
other above all else in