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Igiaba Scego

The Color Line

A Novel

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Inspired by a true story, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black, female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Chippewa woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence. Now, in 1887, living in Rome as one of the city's most… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Cullen, John (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-63542-087-6
  • EAN: 9781635420876
  • Produktnummer: 38182653
  • Verlag: Other Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Igiaba Scego was born in Rome in 1974 to a family of Somali ancestry. She holds a PhD in education on postcolonial subjects and has done extensive academic work in Italy and around the world. Her memoir La mia casa è dove sono won Italy's prestigious Mondello Prize. She is a frequent contributor to the magazine Internazionale and to Il Venerdì di Repubblica, a supplement to La Repubblica. John Cullen was the translator of many books from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, including Siegfried Lenz's The Turncoat, Juli Zeh's Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano's Villa Triste, Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation, and Philippe Claudel's Brodeck.

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