La vie scélérate

aka The Wicked Life

Tree of Life

Author

Maryse Condé

Language

French

Year

1987

First Pub.

France

Genre

Novel

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Tree of Life: A Novel of the Caribbean is a 1987 novel by the Guadeloupean writer, Maryse Condé, translated into English in 1992 by Victoria Reiter. The novel tells a multigenerational story about the emergence of the West Indian middle class. It won the Le Prix de l’Académie française in 1988.