# Tropic of Violence

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- Authors: [Nathacha Appanah](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathacha-appanah)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-10-18

## Description

Marie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby and names him Moïse, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up, Moïse struggles with his status as an " outsider" and to understand why he was abandoned as a baby. When Marie dies, he is left alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil, ending up in the largest and most infamous slum on Mayotte, nicknamed " Gaza". Narrated by five different characters, Tropic of Violence is an exploration of lost youth on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Shining a powerful light on problems of violence, immigration, identity, deprivation and isolation on this island that became a French département in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that draws on the author's own observations from her time on Mayotte. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan

## Editions

### Tropic of Violence

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-771-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2022-04-28
- Language: en_GB

### Tropic of Violence

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-772-3
- Published: 2018-10-18
- Language: en_GB