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The bridge of beyond / Simone Schwarz-Bart ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray ; introduction by Jamaica Kincaid.
- Title
- The bridge of beyond / Simone Schwarz-Bart ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray ; introduction by Jamaica Kincaid.
- Author
- Schwarz-Bart, Simone
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ2679.C43 P5313 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bray, Barbara
- Description
- xii, 246 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from. Time flows unevenly during the long hot blue days as the madness of the island swirls around the villages, and Telumee, raised in the shelter of wide skirts, must learn how to navigate the adversities of a peasant community, the ecstasies of love, and domestic realities while arriving at her own precious happiness. In the words of Toussine, the wise, tender grandmother who raises her, "Behind one pain there is another. Sorrow is a wave without end. But the horse mustn't ride you, you must ride it." A masterpiece of Caribbean literature, "The Bridge of Beyond" relates the triumph of a generous and hopeful spirit, while offering a gorgeously lush, imaginative depiction of the flora, landscape, and customs of Gua-deloupe. Simone Schwarz-Bart's incantatory prose, interwoven with Creole proverbs and lore, appears here in a remarkable translation by Barbara Bray.
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Pluie et vent sur Télumée miracle. English
- New York Review Books classics
- Alternative Title
- Pluie et vent sur Télumée miracle.
- Subject
- Caribbean Area > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- Translation of: Pluie et vent sur Télumée miracle.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781590176801 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1590176804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781590176917 (ebk.)
- 159017691X (ebk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2013015580
- OCLC
- 825046982
- SCSB-12460480
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library