The Story of the Cannibal Woman
A Novel
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2008
Summary
A vibrant, wildly inventive novel from the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) and critically acclaimed author Maryse Condé, The Story of the Cannibal Woman follows the lives of an intercultural, interracial couple across time and space from New York City, Tokyo, to Capetown.
One dark night in Cape Town, Rosélie’s husband goes out for a pack of cigarettes and never comes back. Not only is she left with unanswered questions about …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743271295 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0743271297 |
| Author: | Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 135mm x 210mm |
| Audience Age: | 19-19 |
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Critics Review
”“Entering the Castle” is…based on St. Teresa’s seven interior mansions, which are explained and elaborated here…so beautifully, clearly, compassionately, lightheartedly, wondrously…Ýas¨ seven steps…to your own deepest self or soul. Teresa became not only a spiritual woman who had written a brilliant practice manual, but a saint who saved Caroline’s life, showed her her soul, awakened her heart, and set her on the never-ending…timelessly fulfilled road of practice. I just know that Teresa would say ‘amen’ to this luminous book as the fruit of her calling to you, a calling to all of us to be mystics without monasteries in a world sorely in need of a touch of the divine…the true self in each and every one of us.”
– From the foreword by Ken Wilber, author of “A Brief History of Everything” and “Integral Spirituality”
“Caroline Myss’s brilliant, brave, and profoundly moving book takes us deep into the burning heart of Teresa of Avila’s vision of divine consciousness. Seekers on all parts will find here mature wisdom and deep sacred passion expressed with thrilling directness and a fierce psychological precision worthy of Teresa herself.”
– Andrew Harvey, author of “The Direct Path” and “Son of Man”
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé was an award-winning novelist, critic, and playwright. Her novels include Crossing the Mangrove, Segu, Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?, and I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem. Her work has been translated into many languages all over the world, and she was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) in 2018. She passed away in 2024 at the age of ninety.
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