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Discretion

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781617755453 Author(s): Elizabeth Nunez Format: Paperback Year: 2016 Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S. Dimensions: 140 x 20 x 213 (w x l x h) Pages: 256

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Description: A main selection of the Black Expressions Book Club 'Refreshingly ambitious in its intellectual scope.' New York Times Book Review 'A captivating tale of Oufoula Sindede, an African diplomat in a passionless marriage who falls madly in love with Marguerite, a New York City artist. Essence Right from the start of this haunting novel, Nunez adopts the mesmerizing myth-spinning voice of an oral storyteller . . . In unaffected prose, Nunez explores self-deception, envy, Christian monogamy vs. African polygamy, and the very real dilemma of loving two people at once . . . . This rich, multilayered narrative is powerful in its sweep and moving in its insight.' Publishers Weekly A complex portrait of a love triangle by a gifted writer. Booklist Set amongst the struggles of American, Caribbean, and African diplomacy in the late 1980s, Discretion follows the harrowing journey of Oufoula Sindede, a diplomat of rough beginnings, who discovers his desires may be out of his control. Dutifully married to lovely Nerida, Oufoula goes through the motions of marriage, formally keeping his distance from the woman with whom he shares his bed. And yet there is a deeper, buried passion within him that will lead him to question which values he holds sacred and which can be sacrificed. Despite his quiet marriage, the memory of a fiery love affair triggers Oufoula to entangle himself in the life of another woman, a Jamaican-born painter named Marguerite. Soon he discovers that M