Rosie Carpe

Marie NDiaye

first published 2001 Suhrkamp, 2005 hardcover

"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...

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Tamsin Black 2 printings we hold · 2004 · University of Nebraska Press

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Rosie Carpe paperback · 2021 · Inquilinos Produção Cultural e Comércio Ltda · 362 pages · 9786586419146
Rosie Carpe paperback · 2011 · Suhrkamp · 333 pages · 9783518462713
ROSIE CARPE paperback · 2009 · MINUIT · 9782707320971
Rosie Carpe hardcover · 2007 · De Geus · 351 pages · 9789044507645
Rosie Carpe hardcover · 2005 · Suhrkamp · 9783518416853
Rosie Carpe hardcover · 2004 · University of Nebraska Press · 310 pages · 9780803233485
Rosie Carpe paperback · 2004 · Bison Books · 310 pages · 9780803283831
Rosie Carpe edition · 2001 · Minuit · 338 pages

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