{"product_id":"9780857057716-tropic-of-violence","title":"Tropic of Violence","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathacha Appanah returns with a powerful, beautiful novel about lost youth on a far-flung, forgotten island\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie, 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\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated by five different characters, \u003ci\u003eTropic of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003edépartement\u003c\/i\u003e in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that draws on the author's own observations from her time on Mayotte.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57594958315894,"sku":"9780857057716","price":9.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34131319.jpg?v=1775054307","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780857057716-tropic-of-violence","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}