Victoire
by Maryse Condé
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Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. The author's personal journey of discovery reveals Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles in the French Antilles--Dust jacket.Tags
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This was a very interesting book. It is a fiction story about the life of the author's grandmother that she never knew. I seem to gravitate toward novels that are translated into English from other languages and that have characters and settings far different from what I am used to. I thought the telling of life in another time and another place was done well in this book. Also knowing that it is based on a true story made it more interesting.
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Author Information
51+ Works 3,894 Members
Awards and Honors
Awards
Series
Belongs to Publisher Series
Gallimard, Folio (4731)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Victoire
- Original title
- Victoire, les saveurs et les mots
- Alternate titles
- Victoire: My Mother's Mother
- People/Characters
- Victoire
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
- LCC
- PQ3949.2 .C65 .V52 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc.
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 98
- Popularity
- 327,585
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.69)
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 4
