Hérémakhonon: A NovelVeronica Mercier, a sophisticated Caribbean woman teaching and living in Paris, goes to a West African country to complete her search for self-identity. There, she finds herself involved with a black man with ancestors - a cold, calculating minister for the interior and heir to the presidency. |
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