Rosie Carpe

by Marie NDiaye

Book Overview

When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking for her elusive brother, Lazare, the world already seems a plenty confusing place. Could the man who comes to meet her, an elegant black man calling himself Lagrand, actually be her disheveled white brother? Are her parents, who abandoned her in Paris, rediscovering themselves in an outrageous second youth of outlandish affairs, or have they simply lost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803283830
• ISBN13: 9780803283831
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.1"