Madison Smartt Bell: All Souls' Rising
All Souls' Rising
Buch
- A Novel of Haiti (1)
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 09/2004
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781400076536
- Bestellnummer: 10831489
- Umfang: 560 Seiten
- Gewicht: 417 g
- Maße: 205 x 133 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.9.2004
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"A serious historical novel that reads like a dream." --The Washington Post Book World"One of the most spohisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom." --San Francisco Chronicle
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST
This first installment of the epic Haitian trilogy brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world's first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture-a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant-emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality.
Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul's Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.