''Alma'' is a 2017 novel authored by J. M. G. Le Clézio. The French narrator, Jérémie Felsen, travels to

Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Ag ...

to investigate his family's ties to slavery and explore the long-extinct

dodo The dodo (''Raphus cucullatus'') is an extinction, extinct flightless bird that was endemism, endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightles ...

bird. The narration switches between Jérémie and Dominique Felsen (also called Dodo), a poor and sick Mauritian.

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