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| #27633 in Books | Soho Press | 2013-05-07 | 2013-05-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.18 x.88 x5.50l,.65 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | Soho Press||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Painfully beautiful historical fiction|By Priscilla Stilwell|The range of Haitian literature is considerably limited, and primarily consists of books by "outsiders" (those not of Haitian blood who have not lived there for any considerable length of time), and books by Haitian immigrants, with a smattering of poetry and transcribed stories and memoires preserved from Haiti prope|.com |In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Señora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin colo
It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastien are separated, and she desperately...
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