The governor's daughter =
La fille du gobernator
by Paule Constant
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The Governor's Daughter is a tale of innocence adrift in a monstrous world. Set just after World War I in the French penal colony in Cayenne, French Guiana, it is the story of Chretienne, the seven-year-old daughter of the colony's governor and his obsessively devout wife, whom the convicts acidly call the "Mother of God.".
Chretienne's disarmingly clear view of the adults with whom she lives - her pious parents and the notorious convicts in their charge - is both hilarious and harrowing. Her parents, driven by their desire for sainthood, subject Chretienne and the prisoners alike to inhuman rigors and coldness. Denied it by her family, the child finds human contact among the convicts, especially the Chinese murderer Tang.
Pervading all is the grotesque yet fascinating atmosphere of the penal colony and its colonial setting - an atmosphere that we discover through the alert, inquisitive consciousness of a young girl.
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Fiction, Penal colonies, Girls, Fiction, biographical, Africa, fictionPlaces
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The governor's daughter =: La fille du gobernator
1998, University of Nebraska Press
in English
0803214782 9780803214781
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Die Tochter des Gobernators.
October 1, 1997, Btb Bei Goldmann
Paperback
in German
3442721954 9783442721955
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La fille du gobernator
September 5, 1996, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2070400794 9782070400799
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