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Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman’s name: Maram. More about this book >
David Diop was born in Paris and was raised in Senegal. He is a professor of 18th-century literature at the University of Pau. His second novel, At Night All Blood Is Black, was awarded the International Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.
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