(07/29/2008) The Ripening by Edouard Glissant. New York. 1959. George Braziller. Translated From The French By Frances Frenaye. Winner Of The Prix Renaudot. keywords: Literature Caribbean Black Martinique Translated. 253 pages. JACKET DESIGN BY HAL SIEGEL.
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This extraordinary novel tells the story of the rise to political maturity of eight young Martinicans, and their plans to stage a political murder. Concerned for the justice of the forthcoming elections, they fix upon a government agent who stands in the way of the people. They determine to kill him and, as their instrument, they choose Thael, an unsophisticated shepherd from the hills. THE RIPENING is set in Martinique, on a rich landscape full of life and death. It is one of the most accomplished works by any French Caribbean writer.
Edouard Glissant was born in 1928 in Martinique, and is well known as a poet, and a novelist. THE RIPENING won the Prix Renaudot on its first publication in 1958.
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