The farming of bones ; a novel
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
The farming of bones ; a novel / Edwidge Danticat - New York : Soho Press , c1998. - 312 p. ; 22 cm.
A novel on a massacre of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic of the 1930s. The protagonists are two Haitian lovers, a sugarcane cutter and a maid. Twenty thousand people died in a government-led campaign of ethnic cleansing. The young Haitian National Book Award nominee tells an epic tale of the 1937 tragedy at the border between Haiti & the Dominican Republic. An emotion-charged historical novel about the people of Haiti & the Dominican Republic in which Amabelle, an aging Haitian woman, recalls the the terrible massacre of 1937 & what happened to her & the man she loved.
English.
9781569471265
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas---1891-1961---- Fiction.
Dominican-Haitian Conflict---1937----Fiction.
Haitians---Dominican Republic----Fiction.
Women household employees----Fiction
Plantation life----Fiction
Massacres---Fiction
Refugees ----Fiction
Genocide ----Fiction
Dominican Republic ----Fiction.
Haiti ----Fiction
FIC DAN
The farming of bones ; a novel / Edwidge Danticat - New York : Soho Press , c1998. - 312 p. ; 22 cm.
A novel on a massacre of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic of the 1930s. The protagonists are two Haitian lovers, a sugarcane cutter and a maid. Twenty thousand people died in a government-led campaign of ethnic cleansing. The young Haitian National Book Award nominee tells an epic tale of the 1937 tragedy at the border between Haiti & the Dominican Republic. An emotion-charged historical novel about the people of Haiti & the Dominican Republic in which Amabelle, an aging Haitian woman, recalls the the terrible massacre of 1937 & what happened to her & the man she loved.
English.
9781569471265
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas---1891-1961---- Fiction.
Dominican-Haitian Conflict---1937----Fiction.
Haitians---Dominican Republic----Fiction.
Women household employees----Fiction
Plantation life----Fiction
Massacres---Fiction
Refugees ----Fiction
Genocide ----Fiction
Dominican Republic ----Fiction.
Haiti ----Fiction
FIC DAN
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