The farming of bones
a novel
by Edwidge Danticat
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It is 1937, the Dominican side of the Haitian border. Amabelle, orphaned at the age of eight when her parents drowned, is a maid to the young wife of an army colonel. She has grown up in this household, a faithful servant. Sebastien is a field hand, an itinerant sugarcane cutter. They are Haitians, useful to the Dominicans but not really welcome. There are rumors that in other towns Haitians are being persecuted, even killed. But there are always rumors.
Amabelle loves Sebastien. He is handsome despite the sugarcane scars on his face, his calloused hands. She longs to become his wife and walk into their future. Instead, terror enfolds them. But the story does not end here: it begins. The Farming of Bones is about love, fragility, barbarity, dignity, remembrance, and the only triumph possible for the persecuted: to endure.
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Fiction, History, Massacres, Haitians, Plantation life, Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937, Women household employees, Refugees, Genocide, Women domestics, Dominican Republic, Fiction, historical, Haiti, fiction, Dominican republic, fiction, Haitians in fiction, Dominican Republic in fiction, Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937 in fiction, Refugees in fiction, Massacres in fiction, Haiti in fiction, Genocide in fiction, Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, in fiction, Plantation life in fiction, Women domestics in fiction, Women household employees in fiction, Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leônidas, in fiction, Dominican-Haitian Conflict (1937) fast (OCoLC)fst00896780, Large type books, Caribbean area, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, GeneralPlaces
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20th century, 1930-1961Showing 8 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
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