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"In the 18th century, a young French botanist named Michel Adanson traveled to Senegal to gather specimens. He spent the rest of his life back in France, laboring on an encyclopedic classification project that went mostly unpublished. Diop, a novelist of French Senegalese origin, imagines the Enlightenment cataloger as a man haunted ever since his return by a profoundly disorienting quest he embarked on during the trip: He set out to find a woman who had been abducted and sold into slavery, but who’d managed to escape captivity."
