La Guadeloupe des années cinquante. Contre des parents qui semblent surtout soudés par le mensonge, contre une mère aussi dure avec les autres qu'avec elle-même, contre un père timoré, la petite Maryse prend le chemin de la rébellion. La soif de connaissance, les rêves d'autonomie et de liberté la guident vers son destin d'écrivain. Mais peu à peu les épreuves de la vie appellent l'indulgence, la nostalgie de l'âme caraïbe restitue certains bonheurs d'enfance. Et Maryse se souvient alors de cet instant qui lui redonna l'amour des siens, de cette ultime nuit où "roulée en boule contre son flanc, dans son odeur d'âge et d'arnica, dans sa chaleur", elle retrouva sa mère en la perdant. Aux sources de l'inspiration romanesque de Maryse Condé.
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Maryse Condé est née en Guadeloupe. Elle a étudié à Paris, avant de vivre en Afrique, d'où elle a tiré l'inspiration pour son best-seller Ségou (Robert Laffont, 1985). Elle compte actuellement plus d'une douzaine de romans à son actif, dont Moi, Tituba, sorcière (Grand Prix littéraire de la Femme, 1986), La Vie scélérate (Prix Anaïs-Ségalas de l'Académie française, 1988), Le C ur à rire et à pleurer (Prix Marguerite-Yourcenar, 1999). Elle enseigne actuellement la littérature à l'Université de Columbia à New York. En 1993, Maryse Condé a été la première femme à recevoir, pour l'ensemble de son uvre, le Prix Putterbaugh, décerné aux États-Unis à un écrivain de langue française.
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