In the course of this brilliant novel, Maryse Condé tells of Béhanzin’s scattered offspring and their lives in the Caribbean and the United States. A book made up of many characters and countless stories, The Last of the African Kings skillfully intertwines the themes of exile, lost origins, memory, and hope/5. · In the course of this brilliant novel, Maryse Condé tells of Béhanzin's scattered offspring and their lives in the Caribbean and the United States. A book made up of many characters and countless stories, The Last of the African Kings skillfully intertwines ISBN · In the course of this brilliant novel, Maryse Conde tells of Behanzin's scattered offspring and their lives in the Caribbean and the United States. A book made up of many characters and countless stories, The Last of the African Kings skillfully intertwines .
The last of the African kings by Maryse Condé (Book) 40 editions published between 19in French and English and held by WorldCat member libraries. DESIRADA by Maryse Condé translated by Richard Philcox Quickview Aug THE LAST OF THE AFRICAN KINGS by Maryse Condé Quickview March 1, The Last of the African Kings. The Last of the African Kings follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. It begins with the regal Béhanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and was exiled to distant Martinique. In the course of this brilliant novel, Maryse Condé tells of Béhanzin's scattered offspring and their.
Maryse Condd's The Last of the African Kings follows the thoughts of its protago-nist one rainy December 10 in South Carolina. Spero is the fictional great grand-son of the king of Dahomey deposed of his throne by the French and deported to Martinique in However, Spero's grandfather, the illegitimate son of the. paper, $ aryse Condé's sweeping, sometimes disjointed novel follows the history of a fictional African royal family through forced exile to the Caribbean and eventual emigration to the United. In The Last of the African Kings, novel published in French in and in English in , Maryse Condé introduces two protagonists: Spéro, a Guadeloupian, descendant of a king of an African country sent into exile to Martinique by the French at the end of the 19 th century.
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