Ma

Translated from the French by Ann-Marie Glasheen. Winner of the 1998 Erckmann-Chatrian prize, this novel, finally available in an English translation, tells the story of a young African woman, a third wife reduced to the status of a slave, who is forced by her husband to give up her son Douo to the nuns. When Ma, a local juju woman, becomes her godmother, Sabeth begins a long journey to bring back her son, travelling from shaman to shaman until she meets Emmanuel and is finally reborn, discovering at last the real meaning of passion.