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November 2000 | Fiction
$13 Paperback
ISBN: 1-56947-216-5
Brit., trans., dram.: Robert Laffont, Paris
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“Exotic and eloquent....
Condé takes Emily Bronte's cold-climate classic on obsessive love
and makes it hot and lush."
—USA Today |
"Condé gives Bronte
a cultural context...a fine and unique accomplishment."
—Washington
Post |
“Windward Heights is a confident and
incisive Caribbeanization of a European master–text by a master novelist
of African descent."
—Village Voice |
"Condé's story is rich and colorful
and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into
the reader's heart."
—Maya Angelou |
"A brooding tale of black and white families
fatefully bound together in a web of fascination and hatred. Crisscrossing
islands and saltwater channels, Condé's lush prose conjures up the
smells, tastes and sights of a sepia-colored French Caribbean, where opulence
rubs shoulders with misery, and hurricanes are no match for the passions
that rage within."
—Richard Price, The Convict and the Colonel |
"In Windward Heights one of the greatest
storytellers of our century has given us a most ingeniously conceived and
utterly original love story. Maryse Condé's re-imagined world brings
us the darkest, most passionate revelations not only about the migrations
of the human heart, but about the exultant, fevered and tragic ways the past
colludes with the present. An astonishing book - a profound, gorgeously crafted,
memorable tale for our times."
—Jay Neugeboren, The Stolen Jew |
"A beautifully evocative novel which "writes
back" to Europe with both political insight and considerable literary
verve."
—Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood |
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In this brilliant retelling of Wuthering Heights, prizewinning writer Maryse
Condé has transplanted the novel to her native Guadeloupe and Cuba,
retaining the emotional power of the original while showing us Caribbean society
in the wake of emancipation.
MARYSE CONDÉ's is the former Chair of the
Center for French and Francophone Studies at Columbia University. Her memoir,
Le coeur à rire et à pleurer (Tales from the Heart) won the Prix
Yourcenar 1999 for excellence in French writing. She is also the author of the
novel Desirada.
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