Private property
By: Paule Constant ; translated by Margot Miller and France Grenaudier-Klijn ; introduction by Claudine Fisher
Contributors: Miller, Margot, 1950-; Grenaudier-Klijn, France
Series: European women writers series; European women writers series
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780803234802
Subjects: Home; Fiction; French; Catholic schools; Mothers and daughters
Work titles: Propriété privée
Description: "When Tiffany Murano's parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial Africa, she loses the natural world, the people, and the animals she knows and loves. Behind the walls of the Convent of the Slaughterhouse Ladies, Tiffany, whom readers met in Paule Constant's award-winning first novel, Ouregano, leads a life cut off from the world, a life of immutable and ironically secular ritual. She finds solace only in visits to her grandmother's nearby farm, which becomes a sanctuary, paradisial in its isolation. But it is only a matter of time before this magical world is threatened."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.