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Tropic of Violence

Tropic of Violence

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Tropic of Violence is a novel that explores lost youth on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, shining a light on issues of violence, immigration, identity, deprivation, and isolation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 28 April 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing


Marie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby and names him Moïse, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up, Moïse struggles with his status as an outsider and to understand why he was abandoned as a baby. When Marie dies, he is left alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil, ending up in the largest and most infamous slum on Mayotte, nicknamed Gaza.

Narrated by five different characters, Tropic of Violence is an exploration of lost youth on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Shining a powerful light on problems of violence, immigration, identity, deprivation, and isolation on this island that became a French département in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that draws on the author's own observations from her time on Mayotte.

Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan

Weight: 122g
Dimension: 131 x 196 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780857057716

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