Date 23 August 2018
Pages 288
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 19.00
EAN 9791034900459
Publisher Website www.lianalevi.fr

Where Dogs Bark With Their Tails

Publisher Liana Levi
COLLECTION Littérature française
The interwoven history of the Ezechiel family and the island of Guadeloupe from the 50s to the present; a novelistic whirlwind that examines the mixed-race identity handed down from one generation to the next.

A young woman born in the Paris suburbs, whose skin color and holiday memories alone link her to her father’s native Guadeloupe, asks herself questions about her mixed-race identity. At her request, her old aunt Antoine, flamboyant and indomitable, unfolds the history of their family, the Ezechiels, that echoes that of the island itself in the second half of the twentieth century. Carried along by unforgettable characters and inventive language, this novel pieces together all the nuances of Guadeloupean culture, its richness and it hidden wounds.

  • Sales in France 52,000 copies
  • Rights Sold Japan, Spain, USA
  • Awards Prix Stanislas 2018, Prix Eugène Dabit du roman populiste 2018, Prix Libraires en Seine 2019
  • As of: September 2021