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It is 1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homeland. The Republic, under the iron rule of the Generalissimo, treats the Haitians as second-class citizens, and although Amabelle feels a strong sense of loyalty to her employers, especially since her own parents drowned crossing the river from Haiti, racial tensions are heightened when Amabelle's boss accidentally kills a Haitian in a car accident. The accident is a catalyst for a systematic round-up of Haitians, ostensibly for repatriation but in fact a prelude to slaughter. Amabelle, caught up in the chaos and confusion, returns to Haiti after much hardship to make a new life, but is for years uncertain of the fate of her lover, Sebastian, and haunted by a nagging sense of guilt.
A powerful, fiercely economical and deceptively moving work, blending historical accuracy with lyrical brilliance.
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Danticat delicately tiptoes through bougainvillaea and butterflies into minefields of rape, mayhem, insanity, suicide, terror. (Fay Weldon, MAIL ON SUNDAY)
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Danticat delicately tiptoes through bougainvillaea and butterflies into minefields of rape, mayhem, insanity, suicide, terror. (Fay Weldon, MAIL ON SUNDAY)
A first novel of precocious maturity (INDEPENDENT)
A writer of great force with still more potential (INDEPENDENT)
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- EditoreLittle, Brown
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 0316848158
- ISBN 13 9780316848152
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine320
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Codice articolo 6545-9780316848152
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Good. It is 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border. Amabelle, orphaned at the age of eight when her parents drowned, is a maid to the young wife of an army colonel. She has grown up in this household, a faithful servant, even delivering the Seqora's babies in an emergency and supporting her in her grief at one infants death. Sebastien is a field hand, an itinerant sugarcane cutter. They are Haitians, useful to the Dominicans but not really welcome. There are rumors that in other towns Haitians are being persecuted, even killed. But there are always rumors, jealousies, fears.Amabelle loves Sebastien. He is handsome despite the sugarcane scars on his face and his callused hands. She longs to become his wife and walk into their future. Instead, terror enfolds them. But the story does not end here: it begins.The Farming of Bones is about love, fragility, barbarity, dignity, remembrance, and the only triumph possible for the persecuted and the innocent: to endure. Sticker with previous owner's name on first page. 312 pages. Codice articolo 1481975
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