The Duel of Grandmothers - Diadié Dembélé (pocket)
Malian-style coming-of-age novel
Because he plays hooky to read and eat doughnuts, because he answers insolently and because he speaks French better than the French in France, Hamet, a young boy, is sent far from Bamako, to the village of his two grandmothers. His parents hope that a few months there will teach him respect for traditions and humility. By meeting his grandmothers, drinking salty water from the well, working in the fields, Hamet will discover much more than obedience: the history of his family and his roots.
224 pages
Author: Diadie Dembele
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Diadié DEMBÉLÉ was born in 1996 in Mali, in the Kayes region. He began writing as a teenager. He discovered poetry with "Coups de pilon" by the Senegalese poet David Mandessy Diop. His first book is a collection of texts mixing poetry and stories, published by l'harmattan in 2019. His first novel "Le duel des grands-mères", published in January 2022, received the Prix de la Vocation the same year. In January 2024, his second novel "Deux grands hommes et demi" was also published by Jean-Claude Lattès. It was in the final selection for the 2024 grand fiction prize from the SDGL society of literary people.
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