Land of Many Colors and Nanna-YA

by Maryse Condé

Book Overview

Land of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in the French Caribbean. It opens with the deaths of a young liberation activist and his mother in 1984. The narrator, a doctor who handles both of these cases, attempts to reconstruct the history of the family through four generations. The doctor's account illuminates the political and social complexities of race and class distinctions, the legacy of French colonialism that has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803263953
• ISBN13: 9780803263956
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"