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1. 1. The Rarest Fruit

   

   Set in 19th-century La Réunion, the novel follows Edmond Albius, a young Creole boy born into slavery who, after being raised by a local botanist, devises a method of hand-pollinating orchids that changes vanilla cultivation. It traces his resilience and ingenuity amid the hardships of colonial society and how one discovery reshaped lives and economies.

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