TWILIGHT OF TORMENT, II. Heritage, translated by Gila Walker

: Miano (L.)

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299pp., hardback, d.w., First English Language Edition, Calcutta, 2023

 

First published in 2017 in French as Crépuscule du torment 2. Heritage.

The second volume of a two-volume novel. The first volume, Twilight of Torment, 1. melancholy, also translated by Gila Walker, was published in 2022.

After beating his girlfriend and leaving her for dead on the street, Amok decides to find his father, hoping to rid himself of the violence he sees in the men in his family.

Léonora Miano was born in Cameroon in 1973. She won the prix Fémina  and the Grand prix du roman métis for her novel Season of the Shadow. Miano curates the Quilombola series of books at Seagull Publishers and is the founding director of Quilombo Publishing in Lomé, Togo.