Marie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby
and names him Moise, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up,
Moise struggles with his status as an "outsider" and to understand
why he was abandoned as a baby. When Marie dies, he is left alone,
plunged into uncertainty and turmoil, ending up in the largest and
most infamous slum on Mayotte, nicknamed "Gaza". Narrated by five
different characters, Tropic of Violence is an exploration of lost
youth on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Shining
a powerful light on problems of violence, immigration, identity,
deprivation and isolation on this island that became a French
departement in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that
draws on the author's own observations from her time on Mayotte.
Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan
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