Tropic Of Violence Av Nathacha Appanah

<p>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".<br><br>Narrated by five different characters, <i>Tropic of Violence</i> 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 <i>département</i> in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that draws on the author''s own observations from her time on Mayotte.<br><br><b>Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan</b></p>