Waiting for the Waters to Rise

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS of 2021 By the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature “At once touching and devastating, the book explores the effects of loss and grief on a personal, communal, and national level, but does so with a personal voice that feels more like a having a conversation than reading a book…it is a novel that cements Condé as a literary giant who beautifully chronicles the humanity found in so