{"product_id":"9781590176917","title":"The Bridge of Beyond","description":"This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters,  spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean  island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story  and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to  draw strength from. Time flows unevenly during the long hot blue days as  the madness of the island swirls around the villages, and Telumee,  raised in the shelter of wide skirts, must learn how to navigate the  adversities of a peasant community, the ecstasies of love, and domestic  realities while arriving at her own precious happiness. In the words of  Toussine, the wise, tender grandmother who raises her, “Behind one pain  there is another. Sorrow is a wave without end. But the horse mustn’t  ride you, you must ride it.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece of Caribbean literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge of Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e relates the triumph of a generous and hopeful spirit, while offering a  gorgeously lush, imaginative depiction of the flora, landscape, and  customs of Gua­deloupe. Simone Schwarz-Bart’s incantatory prose,  interwoven with Creole proverbs and lore, appears here in a remarkable  translation by Barbara Bray.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183275884784,"sku":"9781590176917","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590176917_p0.jpg?v=1763809690","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590176917","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}