Novel
Fofombadiko
Not translated into English
E. D. Andriamalala · 1962
Synopsis
Fofombadiko (My Betrothed): in 1947, during the insurrection that sets the east coast of Madagascar ablaze, the narrator sets out in search of his fiancée. His quest entangles him in the complex relations that bind and divide settlers and insurgents.
Context
Written in 1954, the novel appeared in 1962 in Antananarivo according to D. Ranaivoson, as early as 1954 according to its French publisher, and was reissued in 1967 and in 1972, the year the author received the Akbaraly Prize. Studied for decades in Malagasy schools, it has inspired other novels about 1947. Johary Ravaloson translated it into French under the title Ma promise, for Éditions Dodo vole in 2020, the first translation of a work by the author.
Who it is for
For discovering the Malagasy novel most read at school for generations, now readable in French.
Prizes and reception
D. Ranaivoson makes it the novel of all young Malagasy, read by generations of pupils.
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