The Farming Of Bones: A Novel By Edwidge Danticat - From the bestselling author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, a passionate and profound novel of two lovers struggling against political violence
The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti.
Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her lover Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, decide they will marry and return to Haiti at the end of the cane season.
However, hostilities toward Haitian laborers find a vitriolic spokesman in the ultra-nationalist Generalissimo Trujillo who calls for an ethnic cleansing of his Spanish-speaking country.
As rumors of Haitian persecution become fact, as anxiety turns to terror, Amabelle and Sebastien's dreams are leveled to the most basic human desire: to endure.
Based on a little-known historical event, this extraordinarily moving novel memorializes the forgotten victims of nationalist madness and the deeply felt passion and grief of its survivors.
* New York Times Notable Book
* Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Entertainment Weekly, Chicago Tribune, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, and the American Library Association
* The author was nominated for a National Book Award and named one of the 20 Best Young Novelists by Granta
A remarkable new novel .
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Danticat writes in wonderful, evocative prose, and she is especially adept at treading the path between oppression and grace.
At times, it's a particularly painful path, but, always, a compelling one. --The Boston Sunday Globe
[With] hallucinatory vigor and a sense of mission .
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Danticat capably evokes the shock with which a small personal world is disrupted by military mayhem .
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The Farming of Bones offers ample confirmation of Edwidge Danticat's considerable talents.
--The New York Times Book Review
It's a testament to her talent that the novel, while almost unbearably sad, is still a joy to read.
--Newsweek
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