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University of Nebraska Press
October 2011
On Sale: October 1, 2011
Featuring: Tiffany Murano
192 pages
ISBN: 0803234805
EAN: 9780803234802
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When Tiffany Murano’s parents, French expatriates in Africa,
send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her
homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial
Africa, she loses the natural world, the people, and the
animals she knows and loves. Behind the walls of the Convent
of the Slaughterhouse Ladies, Tiffany, whom readers met in
Paule Constant’s award-winning first novel, Ouregano,
leads a life cut off from the world, a life of immutable and
ironically secular ritual. She finds solace only in visits
to her grandmother’s nearby farm, which becomes a sanctuary,
paradisial in its isolation. But it is only a matter of time
before this magical world is threatened. Based loosely
on Constant’s own experiences, Private Property is at
once deeply moving and intellectually exacting, an
exploration of identity, home, and the tenuous relationship
between mothers and daughters.
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