Tree of Life (novel)
First edition | |
| Author | Maryse Condé |
|---|---|
| Original title | La vie scélérate |
| Translator | Victoria Reiter |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Seghers |
Publication date | 8 October 1987 |
Published in English | 1 September 1992 (Ballantine Books) |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp. (first edition, hardback) |
| Preceded by | I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem |
| Followed by | Crossing the Mangrove |
Tree of Life: A Novel of the Caribbean (French: La vie scélérate, lit. The Wicked Life) is a 1987 novel by the Guadeloupean writer, Maryse Condé, translated into English in 1992 by Victoria Reiter. The novel tells a multigenerational story about the emergence of the West Indian middle class. It won the Le Prix de l’Académie française in 1988.