A mesmerizing novel from the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature Babakar is a
doctor living alone with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams he
receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia both now gone as are the
hopes and aspirations he's carried with him since his arrival in Guadeloupe. Until one day
the child Anaïs comes into his life forcing him to abandon his solitude. Anaïs's Haitian
mother died in childbirth leaving her daughter destitute-now Babakar is all she has and he
wants to offer this little girl a future. Together they fly to Haiti a beautiful mysterious
island plagued by violence government corruption and rebellion. Once there Babakar and his
two friends the Haitian Movar and the Palestinian Fouad three different identities looking
for a more compassionate world begin a desperate search for Anaïs's family. Maryse Condé's
prodigious fictional universes are founded on a radical and generative disregard for boundaries
based on geography religion history race and gender.ANGELA Y. DAVIS Maryse Condé is a
treasure of world literature writing from the center of the African diaspora with brilliance
and a profound understanding of all humanity.RUSSELL BANKS
