The Story of the Cannibal Woman: A Novel

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A vibrant, wildly inventive novel from the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) and critically acclaimed author Maryse Cond, The Story of the Cannibal Woman follows the lives of an intercultural, interracial couple across time and space from New York City, Tokyo, to Capetown.

One dark night in Cape Town, Roslies husband goes out for a pack of cigarettes and never comes back. Not only is she left with unanswered questions about his violent death but she is also left without any means of support. At the urging of her housekeeper and best friend, the new widow decides to take advantage of the strange gifts she has always possessed and embarks on a career as a clairvoyant. As Roslie builds a new life for herself and seeks the truth about her husbands murder, acclaimed Caribbean author Maryse Cond crafts a deft exploration of post-apartheid South Africa and a smart, gripping thriller.

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""Entering the Castle" is...based on St. Teresa's seven interior mansions, which are explained and elaborated here...so beautifully, clearly, compassionately, lightheartedly, wondrously...as seven steps...to your own deepest self or soul. Teresa became not only a spiritual woman who had written a brilliant practice manual, but a saint who saved Caroline's life, showed her her soul, awakened her heart, and set her on the never-ending...timelessly fulfilled road of practice. I just know that Teresa would say 'amen' to this luminous book as the fruit of her calling to you, a calling to all of us to be mystics without monasteries in a world sorely in need of a touch of the divine...the true self in each and every one of us."

-- From the foreword by Ken Wilber, author of "A Brief History of Everything" and "Integral Spirituality"

"Caroline Myss's brilliant, brave, and profoundly moving book takes us deep into the burning heart of Teresa of Avila's vision of divine consciousness. Seekers on all parts will find here mature wisdom and deep sacred passion expressed with thrilling directness and a fierce psychological precision worthy of Teresa herself."

-- Andrew Harvey, author of "The Direct Path" and "Son of Man"

Author Bio

Maryse Cond was anaward-winning novelist, critic, and playwright. Her novels includeCrossing the Mangrove, Segu, Who Slashed Celanire's Throat, and I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem. Her work has been translated into many languages all over the world, and she was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature(the alternative to the Nobel Prize) in 2018. She passed awayin 2024 at the age of ninety.