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008 960812s1997 nyu 000 1 eng
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082 00 $a863$220
100 1 $aMontero, Mayra,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89672626
240 10 $aTú, la oscuridad.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96078614
245 10 $aIn the palm of darkness :$ba novel /$cMayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins Publishers,$c1997.
263 $a9705
300 $a181 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aThe quest for an elusive amphibian in the mountains of violence-torn Haiti brings together an unlikely pair of hunters - American herpetologist Victor Grigg and his Haitian guide Thierry Adrien - whose individual stories unfold and intertwine in a mesmerizing tale of love, sex, and fraternal rivalry; of the propagation and extinction of species in the natural world; and of the mysterious forces of nature that govern the fate of all living creatures.
520 8 $aNo one can explain the catastrophic disappearance of various species of amphibians all over the world, including the "blood frog" (grenouille du sang) pursued with heartbreaking single-mindedness by Victor and Thierry from the bloody Mont des Enfants Perdus - littered with corpses, the work of Haitian macoutes (thugs) - to the remote Casetouches. Significantly, Thierry's father was also a hunter, but his quarry was another species of fauna, wandering packs of the living dead (zombies).
520 8 $aThe rich and tragic tale of Thierry's family, his life and loves, and his curious destiny informs the obsessive search of the two men from different cultures. Thierry's story opens a window onto another way of understanding the world, an Afro-Caribbean perspective at odds with the reason and logic of Western science represented by Victor.
700 1 $aGrossman, Edith,$d1936-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86033167
852 00 $bbar$hPQ7440.M56$iT813 1997
852 00 $bglx$hPQ7440.M56$iT813 1997