Waiting for the Waters to Rise

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Pub Date 5 Aug 2021 | Archive Date 3 Aug 2021

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS of 2021

By the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature

“At once touching and devastating, the book explores the effects of loss and grief on a personal, communal, and national level, but does so with a personal voice that feels more like a having a conversation than reading a book…it is a novel that cements Condé as a literary giant who beautifully chronicles the humanity found in some of the most violent places in the world.” —GABINO IGLESIAS, NPR

Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now gone, as are the hopes and aspirations he’s carried with him since his arrival in Guadeloupe. Until, one day, the child Anaïs comes into his life, forcing him to abandon his solitude. Anaïs’s Haitian mother died in childbirth, leaving her daughter destitute—now Babakar is all she has, and he wants to offer this little girl a future. Together they fly to Haiti, a beautiful, mysterious island plagued by violence, government corruption, and rebellion. Once there, Babakar and his two friends, the Haitian Movar and the Palestinian Fouad, three different identities looking for a more compassionate world, begin a desperate search for Anaïs’s family.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS of 2021

By the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature

“At once touching and...


A Note From the Publisher

UK Edition Details



Pub Date: August 5 2021


ISBN: 978-1-912987-15-3


Price: £12.99

UK Edition Details



Pub Date: August 5 2021


ISBN: 978-1-912987-15-3


Price: £12.99


Advance Praise

A mesmerizing novel from the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature

Praise for Maryse Condé:

“[Condé is] at her signature best: offering complex, polyphonic and ultimately shattering stories whose provocations linger long after [the] final pages. The book is a reflection on the dangers of binary thinking…One is never on steady ground with Condé; she is not an ideologue, and hers is not the kind of liberal, safe, down-the-line morality that leaves the reader unimplicated.” —Justin Torres, The New York Times

A mesmerizing novel from the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature

Praise for Maryse Condé:

“[Condé is] at her signature best: offering complex, polyphonic and ultimately shattering...


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  • Advance reader and digital reader copies
  • National TV, radio, print, and online campaign targeting both literary reviews and parenting outlets

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ISBN 9781642860733
PRICE CA$22.99 (CAD)
PAGES 368

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