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The farming of bones : a novel /

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. The young Haitian National...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Soho Press, [1998]
Subjects:	Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, > 1891-1961 > Fiction. Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937 > Fiction. Haitians > Dominican Republic > Fiction. Massacres > Dominican Republic > History > 20th century > Fiction. Haitians > Dominican Republic > History > 20th century > Fiction. Refugees > Dominican Republic > Fiction. Genocide > Dominican Republic > Fiction. Dominican Republic > Fiction. Women household employees > Fiction. Plantation life > Fiction. Massacres > Fiction. Refugees > Fiction. Genocide > Fiction. Haiti > Fiction. Historical fiction.

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