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Author Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

Title The farming of bones : a novel / Edwidge Danticat.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Soho Press, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 D236f    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Fiction  F Danticat    ---  Available
Description 312 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary A novel on a massacre of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic of the 1930s. The protagonists are two Haitian lovers, a sugarcane cutter and a maid. Twenty thousand people died in a government-led campaign of ethnic cleansing. By the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory.
Subject Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas, 1891-1961 -- Fiction.
Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937 -- Fiction.
Haitians -- Dominican Republic -- Fiction.
Women household employees -- Fiction.
Plantation life -- Fiction.
Massacres -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Genocide -- Fiction.
Dominican Republic -- Fiction.
Haiti -- Fiction.
ISBN 1569471266 (alk. paper)
0140280499 (pbk.)

 
    
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