''Alma'' is a 2017 novel authored by

J. M. G. Le Clézio Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (; 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French and Mauritian nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel ''Le P ...

. The narrator, Jeremie Falsen, travels to

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

to investigate his family's ties to slavery.

References

2017 French novels Novels about slavery Novels set in Mauritius Éditions Gallimard books {{2010s-novel-stub