Leopard Boy
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780813937908
Subjects: France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction; Fiction, alternative history
Description: "This prize-winning historical novel, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, centers on the search by conflicting parties for a mottled-skinned boy rumored to be the son of Marie-Antoinette and a man of color. Of mixed-race parentage himself, Daniel Picouly offers a prescient re-creation of postcolonial France in light of its immigrant population"--