{"product_id":"9781782278399","title":"Beyond The Door of No Return by David Diop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A love story, an adventure tale, and an unflinching examination of the unexpected ways that colonialism and greed ravaged everyone it touched, European and African' \u003cb\u003eMAAZA MENGISTE, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Diop has opened a new way of thinking about the eighteenth century and its hideous cruelties' \u003cb\u003eABDULRAZAK GURNAH, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A compelling romantic adventure... Through an act of remembrance, Diop seeks to build a repository of lives and histories lost to the slave trade' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Diop explores the cruelties of colonialism in a powerful story of love destroyed' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, Historical Fiction Pick of the Month\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e__________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe captivating new novel from David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, 1806. Michel Adanson is dying. The last word to escape his lips is a woman's name: Maram. Who was she? Why, in the course of his long life, has he never spoken of her before?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Adanson's daughter sorts through his things, she discovers a notebook. It reveals a secret history both fantastical and terrible, of his time as a young botanist travelling in Senegal. How Adanson first heard of the 'revenant': a young woman of noble birth, abducted and sold into slavery across the seas, who then did the impossible-she came back, to live in hiding. How he became obsessed with finding her, embarking on an odyssey that would lead to danger and destruction. How a man who longed to solve the mysteries of nature instead found himself faced with the uncontrollable impulses of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragic and tender, alive with feeling, this is a story of adventure, revenge and impossible desires, one which subverts our every expectation about who we are and who we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304746889589,"sku":"9781782278399","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781782278399.jpg?v=1762796427","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781782278399","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}