The Farming of Bones
by Danticat, Edwidge
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1569471266
- ISBN 13
- 9781569471265
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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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
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4292341-6
- Title
- The Farming of Bones
- Author
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1569471266
- ISBN 13
- 9781569471265
- Publisher
- Soho Press, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2003-07-01
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