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Windward
Heights
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ISBN: 0571193242 (UK); 1569471614 (USA) |
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Windward
Heights
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Other books by this author: A Season in Rihata |
This novel is an imaginative transposition
of Wuthering Heights to a Caribbean context, where Heathcliff is
reincarnated in the character Rayze, and Cuba and Guadeloupe in the last
quarter of the nineteenth century form the backdrop to the murderous passion
which binds him to Cathy. All-consuming love, ancient hatreds, family
rivalries, the mysterious forces of religion, a society in transition
in the wake of emancipation - retaining all the emotional power of the
original, the author offers a vivid picture of a way of life which embodies
all the complex social and historical forces which produced it.
Born in Guadeloupe, Maryse Conde has lived in France and Africa, and currently teaches at Columbia University in New York City. Her previous novels have won the Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme and the Prix Anais Nin. |
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