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Tropic of Violence (Paperback)

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Paperback 160 Pages
Published: 28/04/2022
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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

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9780857057716
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 120 g
Dimensions: 194 x 128 x 32 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

A masterpiece - François Busnel, La Grande Librairie

This hard, harsh story will wring out your heart with its otherworldly poetry - Xavier Houssin, Elle

In the magnificent Tropic of Violence, Nathacha Appanah gives us a terrifying portrait of Mayotte - Julien Bisson, Lire

A brief, beautiful, brutal portrait of this tiny island in the Indian Ocean - Gladys Marivat, Le Monde

The strength and the elegance of this novel will take your breath away - Marianne Payot, L'Express

The hell of Mayotte finds its redemption in the novel's restrained, imaginative use of language - Claire Devarrieux, Libération

Brilliantly vivid - Guardian

Beautiful and brutal - New Yorker

Searing, lyrical, and ultimately devastating, Tropic of Violence might be Appanah's finest yet - Kirkus Reviews

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