Ink and Indigo
Fatima Sow
Ink and Indigo
Fatima SowCFA 7,000
Priced by the author in XOF (Senegal). You pay the NGN equivalent at today’s rate.
About this book
A Senegalese dyer and a Portuguese scribe in 1743 exchange letters neither can read, and pay a translator who lies to both of them beautifully.
Sample
In 1897 a letter from Saint-Louis took nineteen days to reach Bakel, which is precisely how long Mariama needed to change her mind about a man. She dyed cloth for a living, and her hands were permanently the colour of a storm at dusk. The Frenchman who came to buy indigo for a Paris house had soft hands and a habit of apologising before he spoke, and she despised both until the afternoon he asked her, correctly, what the pattern on a marriage cloth meant. "You want to know …
The author
Fatima Sow is a Senegalese novelist and textile historian based in Saint-Louis.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 284
- Published
- 2023
- Chapters available
- 1