Tales from the heart
Subtitle: true tales from my childhood
By: Maryse Condé ; translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
Contributors: Philcox, Richard.
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Condé, Maryse -- Childhood and youth; Authors, Guadeloupe -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: Cœur à rire et à pleurer.
Description: "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 to respect the culture of France. Her family was proud of its position in the world and mindful of distinctions of skin tone, language and class.".

"In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Conde evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: her first crush; a falling out with her best friend; discovering her parents' feelings of alienation; the death of her beloved grandmother; her own first encounter with racism."--BOOK JACKET.