The Farming of Bones: A Novel
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Document Type
Book
Description
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 Sebastian, 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 Sebastian are separated, and she desperately flees the tide of violence for a Haiti she barely remembers.
Publication Date
1998
Publisher
Soho Press
City
New York
State
NY
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction | History
Repository Citation
Danticat , E. (1998). The Farming of Bones: A Novel. New York, NY: Soho Press.
