Savageries

Original title: Sauvageries

Publication Date:

February 2025

Pages:

272

Original language and publisher

French | Actes Sud

Territories Handled

Netherlands, North America, Scandinavia

Genres

Historical Fiction, Romance

Savageries

Original title: Sauvageries

Synopsis

Taína is a Taíno, a native of the Greater Antilles string of islands “discovered” by the Spanish in 1492. But first and foremost she is a shaman, initiated into the art since childhood and the repository of the rituals and beliefs of her people. In love with a foreigner who is smitten by the way of life she embraces, she survives the extermination of the rest of her kind. Encouraged to write by a perceptive Dominican, she decides to tell the story of the Taíno people from beyond the communal grave so that they will never fall into oblivion.

This book is her manuscript – a sensitive and hard-hitting novel about love and war.

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