In the records that preserved the events of the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, a strange name attracts attention: "Tituba," the black slave.
Maryse Condé repeats the story from the beginning, and goes back to before Tituba's birth, from the moment her mother conceived her, on the ship that took her to be sold with slaves on the island of Barbados. Charting the course of her life, where faces, times, places, geographies, and worlds intersect, where the living connect with the dead, and where the spirit of the world flows, uniting humans, plants, and animals... and where only one word directs the compass of our heroine's journey in the world of chaos and cruelty: freedom!
It is a unique human epic, thanks to which the author, a daughter of the colonies, gained global recognition for her distinction as a human being and a writer.

ماريز كوندي: كاتبة من جزر غوادولوب، تُعتبر من أهمّ كتّاب اللغة الفرنسيَّة على قيد الحياة. تُرجمتْ أعمالُها إلى معظم اللّغات. كما حازت العديدَ من الأوسمة التقديريَّة والجوائز الأدبيَّة، آخرُها جائزة نوبل البديلة سنة 2018.