The Farming Of Bones
$37.12
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2000
Summary
The River of Bones: A Tale of Two Lands
It is 1937. Amabelle Desir, a young Haitian woman, serves as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic. Across the border from her homeland, she lives a life shadowed by the iron rule of the Generalissimo, where Haitians are treated as second-class citizens. Despite her loyalty to her employers, born from the tragedy of her parents’ drowning as they crossed the river from Haiti, racial tensions escalate.
When Amabelle’s bos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349111636 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349111634 |
| Author: | Edwidge Danticat |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2000 |
| Weight: | 219g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 132mm x 20mm |
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Extraordinary - TIME OUT
Danticat delicately tiptoes through bougainvillaea and butterflies into minefields of rape, mayhem, insanity, suicide, terror. - Fay Weldon, MAIL ON SUNDAYA first novel of precocious maturity - INDEPENDENTA writer of great force with still more potential - INDEPENDENTAbout The Author
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of a novel, BREATH, EYES, MEMORY, and a collection of interlinked stories, KRIK? KRAK!, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in the US. She was also one of GRANTA’s Best Young American Novelists.
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