Maryse Condé

Veronica Mercier, a sophisticated Caribbean woman teaching and living in Paris, goes to a West African country to complete her search for self-identity. There, she finds herself involved with a nigger with ancestors - a cold, calculating minister for the interior and heir to the presidency.

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Macy HB

What can children do against the barrel of a gun? Even as a bluff. All this of course is a bluff.

Oh for the Westernized with their long, psychological explanations, their childhood through a tooth comb and their hairsplitting. I’ve been told there’s no room for personal problems here.

As I wasn’t there, I shall never know the truth. And then if I had been there the prisms of my desires and dreams would have distorted the reality. It’s a fact there’s no such thing as reality. The facts are made of Venetian glass.

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