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The Farming of Bones Paperback - 1999
by Danticat, Edwidge
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Details
- Title The Farming of Bones
- Author Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 1999-09-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4WILKM00J23F
- ISBN 9780140280494 / 0140280499
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.77 x 5.07 x 0.59 in (19.74 x 12.88 x 1.50 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Refugees
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98003655
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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.