Maryse Conde Books
Victoire
By Maryse Conde
Maryse Conde has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. The author's personal journey of discovery reveals Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza...
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Victoire
By Maryse Conde
Maryse Conde has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. The author's personal journey of discovery reveals Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza...
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Windward heights
By Maryse Conde
"Caribbean novelist Maryse Conde reimagines Emily Bronte's passionate novel, Wuthering Heights, as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Rayze and Cathy, the wild, sensuous mulatto daughte...
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Desirada
By Maryse Conde
"In the port town of La Pointe in Guadeloupe, Reynalda, a pregnant teenager, is rescued from drowning by a local cook who raises her and the daughter she bears. Reynalda had run away from her mothe...
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Tales from the Heart
By Maryse Conde, Richard Philcox
"Maryse Conde was the eighth child in her family, an unexpected one. Her father, a civil servant, had been awarded the Legion d'honneur; her elegant mother had been a schoolteacher. She was raised...
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