Raharimanana Return review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de uit Madagaskar afkomstige schrijver. Op 19 september 2025 verschijnt bij Seagull Press de Engelse vertaling van Jean-Luc Raharimanana van de Malagassische schrijver. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Raharimanana Return review en recensie
Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Return, de roman van Raharimanana, de uit Madagaskar afkomstige schrijver, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.
Return
- Auteur: Raharimanana (Madagaskar)
- Soort boek: Malagassische roman
- Origineel: Revenir (2018)
- Engelse vertaling: Allison M. Charette
- Uitgever: Seagull Books
- Verschijnt: 19 september 2025
- Omvang; 312 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek
- Prijs: $ 27,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van de Malagassische schrijver Raharimanana
A powerful testament to writing as an act of beauty and rebellion that speaks truth and condemns violent legacies and a feverish ode that weaves together personal and national history to finally find healing.
This evocative novel from a great figure of Malagasy literature tells the story of Hira, a writer born on the seventh anniversary of Madagascar’s independence. He wanders through different cities on a book tour, but the experience is amnesiac and confusing. There is a past he is trying to reckon with, filled with violence against both his family and country. He runs from his wife and represses his memories until it all explodes in fever dreams and a vomit of words. But to write the rebirth that he yearns for, Hira must write of his father’s torture, his tortured island, and how both were juxtaposed to his own happy childhood. In combing through these various pasts, he might make the same mistake his father did: trying to change the world but leaving his own family broken.
Drawing from the lived experience of both the author and his parents, the violence of both life and language, and the stories of both myth and history, Return is a search for an individual’s place within larger collective trauma. Infused with Raharimanana’s signature poeticism and intensity, this is a masterwork by an as-yet-overlooked but essential voice in the postcolonial tradition.
Jean-Luc Raharimanana was born on 26 June 1967 in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He has published serveral novels and writes in French.
