The Bridge of Beyond (Caribbean Writers Series) - Softcover

Schwarz-Bart, Simone

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9780435987701: The Bridge of Beyond (Caribbean Writers Series)

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ISBN 10: 0435987704 ISBN 13: 9780435987701

Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, 1982

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Tells of the survival power of the women of Guadeloupe who live in conditions of extreme poverty and deprivation and yet are filled with courage and love for life.

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Review:

'a superb work of caribbean literature'

(Times Literary Supplement)

About the Author:

SIMONE SCHWARZ-BART (n�e Brumant) was born in 1938 in Charente, on the southwest coast of France, and moved with her mother to Guadeloupe when she was three months old. Her father was a soldier in the French army and was absent for the first six years of her life. She later studied in Paris, where she met her future husband, the French writer Andr� Schwarz-Bart. They collaborated on two novels, Un plat de porc aux bananes verts (A Dish of Pork with Green Bananas) and La mul�tresse Solitude (A Woman Named Solitude), as well as a six-volume encyclopedic work, Hommage � la femme noire (In Praise of Black Women). Schwarz-Bart has traveled widely, living in Senegal and Switzerland and Paris, and eventually settling in Goyave, a small community in Guadeloupe. For a time, she ran a Creole furniture business, and later a restaurant. The Bridge of Beyond, a best seller that Patrick Chamoiseau called “inexhaustible and unfathomable,” was awarded Elle magazine’s literary prize. Schwarz-Bart is also the author of the novel Ti Jean L’ horizon (Between Two Worlds), and a play, Ton beau capitaine (Your Handsome Captain).
BARBARA BRAY (1924–2010) was a translator of twentieth-century French literature into English. She was an early champion of Marguerite Duras and Samuel Beckett, and also translated the work of Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Anouilh, and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
JAMAICA KINCAID was born in St. John’s, Antigua, and has lived in the United States since she was sixteen. She is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including At the Bottom of the River, A Small Place, Annie John, Mr. Potter, My Brother, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas, and most recently, the novel See Now Then.

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