A young doctor is called to a convent in Paris to attend a dying nun, who tells him her story. Brought from Senegal as a small child and raised as a daughter by Madame de B., Ourika grows up educated and adored in the salons of the old regime, until a chance remark shows her that society will never let her marry or belong.
A short, piercing novel of 1823, among the first in European literature narrated by a Black heroine. Download the free EPUB.