This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from. Time flows unevenly during the long hot blue days as the madness of the island swirls around the villages, and Telumee, raised in the shelter of wide skirts, must learn how to navigate the ...

Lluvia y viento sobre Télumée Milagro cuenta la historia de cuatro generaciones de mujeres en el exuberante archipiélago de Guadalupe, años después de la abolición de la esclavitud. Télumée, quien transmite ahora las historias y la espiritualidad de su gente como lo hacían sus antepasadas, narra la vida de su madre, su abuela, su bisabuela y la suya propia, signada por la explotación. Atrapadas entre un pasado colonial y un futuro incierto, víctimas de la fatalida...

Great-granddaughter of Minerve, first woman of the Guadeloupean branch of the Lougandor family to be freed from slavery in 1848, the elderly Telumée tells the story of her own difficult life and that of her ancestors. It is a poor black woman's tale of heroic survival, set in the early 20th century, harsh agrarian environment of a Caribbean island.Through the richly imaged narration of a constantly evolving, cultural significant and always entertaining saga, the author leads the re...

C’est l’histoire d’un couple rare. Celle de deux écrivains, l’une guadeloupéenne, l’autre juif, dont l’œuvre croisée témoigne de la souffrance de leurs peuples. Et celle de deux êtres éperdument soudés, qui, pendant cinquante-cinq ans, tous les soirs, se sont lu un poème d’amour de Pablo Neruda.Il y a pourtant un mystère autour des Schwarz-Bart. Pourquoi, au milieu des années 1970, se sont-ils tus et enfermés dans leur maison de Guadeloupe ? Douze ans après la disparition de son mar...

Propõe uma reflexão ampla sobre o exercício e os mistérios inerentes ao ofício do tradutor. O livro reúne entrevistas com Estela dos Santos Abreu e Eurídice Figueiredo, responsáveis por verter ao português, respectivamente, os livros A ilha da chuva e do vento (em 1986) e Joãozinho no Além (em 1988). Apresenta também uma entrevista com a escritora guadalupense Simone Schwarz-Bart, autora das referidas obras, cuja escrita engajada é fortemente ancorada nos costumes caribenhos. Os capítulos ...