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Massacre River
By (author) Linda Coverdale, By (author) René Philoctète, Translated by Linda Coverdale, Preface by Edwidge Danticat
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In 1937 the power-mad racist Generalissimo Trujillo ordered the slaughter of thousands and thousands of Haitians and, as Philoctète puts it, death set up shop everywhere. At the heart of Massacre River is the loving marriage of the Dominican Pedro and the Haitian Adele in a little town on the Dominican border. On his way to work, Pedro worries that a massacre is in the making; an olive-drab truck packed with armed soldiers rumbles by. And then the church bells begin to ring, and there is the relentless voice on the radio everywhere, urging the slaughter of all the Haitians. Operation Cabezas Haitianas (Haitian Heads) is underway, the soldiers shout, ""Perejil! [Parsley!] Perish! Punish!"" Haitians try to pronounce ""perejil"" correctly, but fail, and weep. The town is in an uproar, Adele is ordered to say ""perejil"" but stammers. And Pedro runs home and searches for his beloved wife, searches and searches "" The characters of this book not only inspired the love and outrage of an extraordinary writer like Philoctète,"" writes Edwige Danticat, ""but continue to challenge the meaning of community and humanity in all of us.""
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Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published date | 17 Nov 2005
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 160
Dimensions | 185 x 137 x 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 357g
ISBN | 978-0-8112-1585-5
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BISAC | non-classifiable
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