The Farming Of Bones, 9780349111636
Paperback
Love, loss, and survival across a border stained with blood.

The Farming Of Bones

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    4 May 2000

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Summary

It is 1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homeland. The Republic, under the iron rule of the Generalissimo, treats the Haitians as second-class citizens, and although Amabelle feels a strong sense of loyalty to her employers, especially since her own parents drowned crossing the river from Haiti, racial tensions are heightened when Amabelle’s boss accidentally kills a Haitian in a car ac…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349111636
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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Critics Review

Extraordinary - TIME OUT

Danticat delicately tiptoes through bougainvillaea and butterflies into minefields of rape, mayhem, insanity, suicide, terror. - Fay Weldon, MAIL ON SUNDAY

A first novel of precocious maturity - INDEPENDENT

A writer of great force with still more potential - INDEPENDENT

About 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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