From the Bookshelf of Around the World in 80 Books…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
A strange novel that is set around 1905, in a time during colonialism and after enslavement, and travels from the Ivory Coast to French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Montserrat and Peru, interweaving realism, magical realism, yarn ("On that particular day...", odyssey and mystery story. I was especially intrigued by the first part which is set in Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, and introduces us to an ensemble cast of characters: the titular Celanire who is beautiful, ruthless, intelligent, poly-amorous, queer, cr
...more
Feb 23, 2009
Tracyene
marked it as to-read
