Segu by Maryse Condé Barbara Bray (Translator) A magnificent new translation of

A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece

and the wrong move could cost his life - but where help comes from the unlikeliest of places

and many more speeches that wield immense significance in understanding how to eradicate religious discord

In Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience

a young student

Segu by Maryse Condé Barbara Bray (Translator) A magnificent new translation ofWinner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature 2018The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynastyIt is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Change is coming. From the East, a new religion, Islam. From the West, the slave trade.