David Diop

Mar 6, 2024 | rageot.fr | David Diop

Depuis que les soldats désœuvrés ont fauché prématurément ses parents, Rêve vit avec sa grand-mère dans une ville de bric et de broc, une montagne-décharge, au bord de l’océan. Elle vit la nuit, dissimulant sa beauté aux hommes avides. Parviendra-t-elle à s'échapper de sa ville de tôle et de barbelés? À propos des titres précédents de l’auteur:  « Un style puissamment rythmé, en même temps classique et moderne, semé d’images fortes et parlantes.

Feb 6, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | David Diop

Diop's love story/epic adventure, written with compassion and skill, is dramatized by a talented team of narrators. Mark Bramhall portrays Michel Adanson, a French Enlightenment-era botanist; Adenrele Ojo and Caroline Hewitt portray different members of his family and some friends. Adanson is on a mission to Africa to study plants for a comprehensive book. The Senegalese characters are adeptly portrayed by Graham.

Jan 20, 2024 | straitstimes.com | David Diop |Sam Taylor |Clement Yong

Beyond The Door Of No ReturnBy David Diop, translated by Sam TaylorFiction/Pushkin Press/Hardcover/256 pages/$32.47/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3U2tMqp)4 stars On the island of Goree, off the coast of Senegal, is a door. Through it, captured Africans would have emerged from dark dungeons into the sunlight of their native land one last time, before being packed onto ships and sold across the sea into slavery.

Nov 6, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | David Diop

Diop's love story/epic adventure, written with compassion and skill, is dramatized by a talented team of narrators. Dion Graham portrays Michel Adanson, a French Enlightenment-era botanist; Mark Bramhall, Adenrele Ojo, and Caroline Hewitt portray different members of his family and some friends. Adanson is on a mission to Africa to study plants for a comprehensive book. The Senegalese characters are adeptly portrayed by Graham.

Sep 19, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | David Diop |Sam Taylor |James McBride

A mesmerizing tale. In French colonial Senegal, a young, soon-to-be-eminent French botanist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman sold into slavery who escaped to freedom. Michel Adanson journeyed to Senegal to catalog new fauna and flora for “Universal Orb,” his magnum opus. A half-century later, following his death in 1806, his daughter, Aglaé, discovers his hidden notebooks, which document his intense experiences on and around the island of Gorée.