by Edwidge Danticat · Soho Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781569471265
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«The Farming of Bones» is the novel by Edwidge Danticat published by Soho Press in paperback, with 312 pages in English.
In 1937, Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman working as a maid in the Dominican Republic, sees how Trujillo's dictatorship cuts short her love story with Sebastien and forces her to flee to a Haiti she barely remembers. A novel about memory and survival during the Parsley Massacre.
Originally published in 1998; the work appears in the categories «Literature & Fiction» and «History».
Recommended for readers interested in Caribbean history and in narratives about memory, violence and survival in contexts of persecution.
Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Her work has dealt with themes of national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. In 2023, she was named the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
