Boy

8vo. Pp. [iv], 198, [3]. Pictorial wraps.

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2005 [Africa region]. Translated by the author from her own Misyon Garson (1996), the first novel ever published in Kreol Morisien. "But it is as if I have broken some chain. And a rich swelling outwards of pleasure comes with being alive. Is this a beginning? Can I take the risk?" A picaresque tale of a teenager's rite-de-passage journey around the island of Mauritius. "Collen is a masterful storyteller." –Independent