Chita: A Memory of Last Island Paperback - 2001
by Lafcadio Hearn
Hearn paints a colorful portrait of life in the marshy Gulf Coast city of New Orleans, focusing on a young white girl who is adopted by a Spanish family.
From the rear cover
Written during a ten-year stay in New Orleans, Chita was Lafcadio Hearn's first novel. It is filled with beautiful language and emotion, and evokes a true sense of the location and the era.
Images are expertly imbued into the mind by vivid description. In Chita, Hearn paints life on a marshy, eclectic Gulf Coast island in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Chita is a young white girl who is orphaned by a shipwreck and then adopted by a Spanish family on the island. Languages, cultures, and people collide and meld into a nebulous, but distinctive, way of life.
Author Lafcadio Hearn was a man who wrote with perception and flair about the exotic places he was inexplicably drawn to.
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- Title Chita: A Memory of Last Island
- Author Lafcadio Hearn
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 212
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pelican Publishing Company
- Date 2001-10-01
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781565549715 / 1565549716
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.08 x 0.57 in (20.47 x 12.90 x 1.45 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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