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02318aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 7B4A5B7E580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 171003t20172017fr 000 1 fre d 020 $a 202137713X 020 $a 9782021377132 035 $a (OCoLC)1005213007 040 $a AUXAM $b eng $e rda $c AUXAM $d TEF $d LTSCA $d NOC $d UBY $d NYP $d MEAUC $d OCLCF $d IaU $d SILO 050 4 $a PQ3989.2.E355 $b C36 2017 082 04 $a 843 $2 23 100 1 $a Efoui, Kossi, $d 1962- $e author. 245 10 $a Cantique de l'acacia : $b roman / $c Kossi Efoui. 264 1 $a Paris : $b EÌditions du Seuil, $c [2017] 300 $a 284 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a The child was not born yet, but Io-Anna had tattooed her future name in the lower back: Joyce. And Grace, the mother-in-law, fortune-teller, enchantress and healer, had been visited by a promising vision. "Trust is the path of what escapes misfortune. That word, Io-Anna left it on deposit with Grace so that it would be forwarded to Joyce later. Because she does not know if she will have the heart to tell him, herself, what she had the heart to live: how, to escape an unjust patriarchal order, she escaped on a bike, to through the marsh mud, with Sunday the peddler who will later become the father of the child; how little Joyce arrived, inanimate, on a floating raft. "You have to be three to make a child," says Grace, "the male, the female, and the Invisible." At the foot of the acacia, the tree of innocence, a magnificent hymn to the courage to live, carried by three generations of women in revolt in Africa today.--English abstract by Seuil. 650 0 $a Women $z Africa $x Social conditions $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Innocence (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Courage $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Paranormal fiction. 650 7 $a Courage. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00881609 650 7 $a Innocence (Psychology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00973731 650 7 $a Paranormal fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01775199 650 7 $a Women $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176947 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 655 0 $a Togolese fiction (French) 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710101814.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B4A5B7E580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search