"Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic flows a river filled with ghosts," Edwige Danticat writes in her superb preface to Massacre River : "Over time the river has been the site of several massacres including the one which is the subject of this tour de force by Ren??? Philoctete."
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"Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic flows a river filled with ghosts," Edwige Danticat writes in her superb preface to Massacre River : "Over time the river has been the site of several massacres including the one which is the subject of this tour de force by Ren??? Philoctete."
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New York. 2005. November 2005. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0811215857. Translated from the French by Linda Cloverdale. Preface by Edwige Danticat. 238 pages. hardcover. Cover: Sequin art by B.K. Epler. keywords: Literature Caribbean Haiti Translated Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In 1937 the power-mad racist Generalissimo Trujillo ordered the slaughter of thousands of Haitians. 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. Pedro worries that a massacre is in the making; an olive-drab truck packed with armed soldiers rumbles by. Then soon 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, ‘Perejill [Parsley! ] Perish! Punish! ' Haitians try to pronounce ‘perejil' correctly, but fail, and weep. Adele is ordered to say ‘perejil' but stammers. ‘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. ' inventory #35731.
