Title: The restless
Description: "This lyrical novel, structured like a Creole quadrille, is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. Dambury's English debut is a vibrant memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, coinciding with the government's declassification of documents pertaining to the incident"--
Subjects: Collective memory, Colonies, Fiction, Autonomy and independence movements, History, Fiction, historical, France, fiction, Fiction, political, Literary, Political, Coming of Age, Historical, French colonies
Places: Guadeloupe, France
Time periods: 20th century