The Farming of Bones

Book Ranked #337 | 1999 - Novels
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-nati ... More from Amazon
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