Who slashed Celanire's throat?
Subtitle: a fantastical tale
By: Maryse Condé ; translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
Contributors: Philcox, Richard.
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Guadeloupe -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Celanire cou-coupe.
Description: "Inspired by a tragedy in the late twentieth century, Conde sets this fiction in the late nineteenth century with her characteristic blend of magical realism and fantasy. Conde imagines Celanire: a woman who was mutilated at birth and left for dead. Mysterious, seductive, and disarming, she is driven to uncover the truth of her past at any cost." "On one hand, Celanire appears to be a saint; she is a tireless worker who has turned numerous neglected institutions into vibrant schools for motherless children. But she is also a woman apprehended by demons, as death and misfortune seem to follow in her wake. Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? follows both her triumphs and her trials as this survivor becomes a beautiful and powerful woman who travels from Guadeloupe to West Africa to Peru in order to solve the mysteries of her past and avenge the crimes committed against her."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "This story was inspired by an event that took place in Guadeloupe in 1995, when a baby was found with her throat slashed on a heap of garbage."