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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE NEW WORLD - MARYSE ...

Maryse Condé is the Grande Dame of Caribbean Literature Maryse was awarded the Alternative
Nobel Prize in 2018  when the Nobel Prize in Literature was suspended  and received the
Grand-Croix de l¿Ordre national du Mérite from President Emmanuel Macron in 2020 This is the
third book we are publishing by Maryse Condé. Her previous titles The Wondrous and Tragic Life
of Ivan and Ivana and Waiting for the Waters to Rise have received multiple awards and been
World Editions bestsellers Her 2021 title Waiting for the Waters to Rise was longlisted for the
2021 National Book Award in Translated Literature and received an English PEN award. The book
was selected for inclusion in the International Fiction Shortlist by the NYT  and as a Best
Book of 2021 by the Financial Times Both previous titles of Maryse Condé have been reviewed in
the NYT. Waiting for the Waters to Rise was reviewed on NPR and the review syndicated. The
title was briefly out of stock less than a month after publication  due to overwhelming
interest and an explosion of orders Both NPR and the NYT have called Condé a ¿literary giant ¿
comparable to Aimé Césaire  Jacques Roumain  Ousmane Sembène  Mahmoud Darwish  and Derek
Walcott In The Gospel According to the New World a miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday 
rumored to be the child of god. Many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain
ground. The novel follows his journey from one community to another search of his origins and
his mission

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