Publisher's Synopsis
Translated from the French by Ann-Marie Glasheen From the award-winning author of Ma comes the tragic story of Douo, an African boy, who was taken from his mother at the age of five and handed over to the nuns to be raised and educated in their convent before being sent to Paris nine years later. As a young man, searching for his identity and trying to make sense of the world, Douo finds that in the teaching of the priests and in the women he seduces, he is searching for his absent father and his mother's love.
