Private Property Grenaudier–klij Constant Miller Fisher Paperback 9780803234802

University of Nebraska Press

Private PropertyAuthor(s): France Grenaudier-Klijn, Paule Constant, Margot Miller, Claudine G. Fisher\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: Bison Books\nISBN-13: 9780803234802, 978-0803234802\nSynopsis\nWhen 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.\nBased loosely on Constant's own experiences, Private Property is.