Windward Heights: A Novel
Prizewinning writer Maryse Condé reimagines Emily Brontë's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Razyé and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Razyé in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Condé shows the Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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From the Trade Paperback edition.
Windward Heights: A Novel
Prizewinning writer Maryse Condé reimagines Emily Brontë's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Razyé and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Razyé in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Condé shows the Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781616950293 |
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| Publisher: | Soho Press, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 07/01/2003 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 400 |
| File size: | 906 KB |
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