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The Farming of Bones

Edwidge Danticat

Paperback | Pages: 312 pages

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Title	:	The Farming of Bones
Author	:	Edwidge Danticat
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 312 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1999 by Penguin Books (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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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-nationalist Generalissimo Trujillo who calls for an ethnic cleansing of his Spanish-speaking country. As rumors of Haitian persecution become fact, as anxiety turns to terror, Amabelle and Sebastien's dreams are leveled to the most basic human desire: to endure. Based on a little-known historical event, this extraordinarily moving novel memorializes the forgotten victims of nationalist madness and the deeply felt passion and grief of its survivors.

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Original Title:	The Farming of Bones
ISBN:	0140280499 (ISBN13: 9780140280494)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (1999)

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"I immediately sank my teeth into the mango, letting the thick, heavy juices fill my mouth" (p. 21). So describes the experience of reading this book.

Lynchingatrocities massacres"The slaughter is the only thing that is mine to pass on.""We would have been beggars if we had not come here. "

As much as there's solace to be derived from bestowing much needed attention on non-white-male authored narratives which speak of the ones snubbed callously by literature, on no grounds can poor story-telling be excused. As if page after page of oblique but trite commentary on ethnic conflict, colonialism, slavery and racism lathered on to the bare bones of a plot was not enough, Danticat makes the task of finding redeeming aspects even harder with her stilted, cardboard cutout characters whose

This is a book about suffering, surviving. Living through events so much bigger than us that they swallow us whole. Coming out the other side, there is nothing left that is recognizable and no symbol, marker, or sign powerful enough to represent what has been lost. Where are the traces of loss, can something or someone who was really such a big part of our lives just disappear so entirely? No two ways about it, this is a raw harrowing tale of survival.I didn't know much about the relations

I read this book years ago, for English class. Why my teacher thought this book merited discussion was a mystery to me -- it's the sort of book filled with clunky metaphors that don't work, symbolism that springs from the sort of soul-draining workshopping that cleanses works of their own identities rather than, you know, out of any real world truth.To Danticat's credit, however, the characters are pretty compelling and she somehow manages to create a very, very vivid sense of a little known

During the early 1800s and mid-1900s, the world was turned upside-down in a decrepit, volatile age. Through Danticats The Farming of Bones, one is revealed a forgotten atrocity that happened in 1937. Reading opens the doors to a different view which allows one to learn more about history. From reading this book, one relives the 1937 Massacre, the dictatorship of Trujillo, and the importance of recalling the past. Danticats novel takes the reader back to the year of 1937 in Dominican Republic.

Two-point-five starsThis book really wants to be "literary" fiction, but it lacks the necessary warmth and depth. The characters are flat and underdeveloped, such that it's hard to feel sorrow for their suffering. The only way I could work up any kind of caring was to remind myself that these characters had real-life counterparts who did in fact suffer the atrocities inflicted by Trujillo. The author seems to assume a lot of prior knowledge on the part of the reader about the events portrayed.