New World Settlement

Author's name: Maryse Condé

Aten's followers were not promised paradise, but a new life on earth. Of his many followers, only his wife Tiye, his two daughters, Nefertiti and Meritaten, and two others remained. They all came with him from Guadeloupe via Venezuela and ended up in the town of Santa Marta on Colombia's Caribbean coast. There, they found nothing but misery, contempt, and ridicule from the locals, who called the place where this small group, who had returned to worshipping their ancestral gods, had settled: the New World Settlement. However, the life of this group would be turned upside down with the arrival of new followers from Haiti and Germany.
In this novel, Maryse Condé ventures into a new world once again, telling of the need of some people for a new religion and a new hope, a need that has become more urgent after the end of ideologies, documenting the spiritual turmoil that prevails in our time, in an engaging plot, with moving characters and unforgettable events.