The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316848158
- ISBN 13
- 9780316848152
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About This Item
Synopsis
The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her lover Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, decide they will marry and return to Haiti at the end of the cane season. However, hostilities toward Haitian laborers find a vitriolic spokesman in the ultra-nationalist Generalissimo Trujillo who calls for an ethnic cleansing of his Spanish-speaking country. As rumors of Haitian persecution become fact, as anxiety turns to terror, Amabelle and Sebastien's dreams are leveled to the most basic human desire: to endure. Based on a little-known historical event, this extraordinarily moving novel memorializes the forgotten victims of nationalist madness and the deeply felt passion and grief of its survivors.
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- Bookseller
- Book Haven (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1481975
- Title
- The Farming of Bones
- Author
- Edwidge Danticat
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0316848158
- ISBN 13
- 9780316848152
- Publisher
- Little Brown 1998 Paperback
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- This edition first published
- 1972-05
- Pages
- 312
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, Fiction
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