The company of heaven : stories from Haiti /
Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell's award-winning stories transport you to Haiti-to a lush, lyrical, flamboyant, and spirit-filled Haiti where palm trees shine wet with moonlight and the sky paints a yellow screen over your head and the ocean sparkles with thousands of golden eyes-and keep you there...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Iowa short fiction award.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell's award-winning stories transport you to Haiti-to a lush, lyrical, flamboyant, and spirit-filled Haiti where palm trees shine wet with moonlight and the sky paints a yellow screen over your head and the ocean sparkles with thousands of golden eyes-and keep you there forever. Her singular characters mysteriously address the deeper meanings of human existence. They also dream of escape, whether from themselves, from family, from Vodou, from financial and cultural difficulties and the politicians that create them, or from the country itself, but Haiti will forever remai. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (190 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781587299506 158729950X |