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Beyond the Door of No Return

Beyond the Door of No Return

Author(s): David Diop, Sam Taylor (translator)

Location(s): Senegal

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Looking back 200 years

1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson is dying. His last word is a woman’s name: Maram. But who was she?

Searching for the answer, Adanson’s daughter discovers a journal of his youthful travels in Senegal, which tells a story of wild adventure and impossible desires. It reveals how he heard of a young woman sold into slavery who did the impossible and returned. How he became obsessed with finding her, whatever the cost. And how a man who longed to solve the mysteries of natural instead found himself grappling with the impulses of the heart.

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