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    Move Like Water

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    Loved and Missed

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    Beyond the Door of No Return

    In early 19th-century France, Aglaé's father Michel Adanson dies of old age. Sitting at his bedside, she hears his last word—a name she doesn't know. While going through his ...

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    The French East India Companies

    In David Diop's novel Beyond the Door of No Return, French botanist Michel Adanson journeys across 18th-century Senegal to discover the fate of a woman who was kidnapped. At the time of the story,...

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    Crossings

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