Windward heights
by Maryse Condé
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"Caribbean novelist Maryse Conde reimagines Emily Bronte's passionate novel, Wuthering Heights, as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Rayze and Cathy, the wild, sensuous mulatto daughter of the man who takes him in, raises him, but whose treatment goads Rayze into rebellious flight. In Cuba Rayze makes his fortune, but upon his return he discovers Cathy has wed the weak scion of a socially prominent Creole family that scorns the dark-haired beauty.
Rayze determines to be avenged for the loss of his love. His vengeance succeeds into the next generation, haunting both Cathy's daughter and his son."--BOOK JACKET. "In characteristic lush prose, Conde transposes Wuthering Heights to her native island of Guadeloupe, retaining the emotional power of the original while showing us Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genre/Form: Love stories
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Maryse Condé; Richard Philcox
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ISBN: 1569471614 9781569471616 1569472165 9781569472163
OCLC Number: 40408822
Description: 348 p. ; 20 cm.
Other Titles: Migration des coeurs.
Responsibility: Maryse Condé ; translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
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A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem.
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