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MuzeFormatDesc: Paperback
 Format: Paperback
 ISBN-10: 0140280499
 ISBN-13: 9780140280494
 Sep 1999
 Publisher: Penguin Group USA
 312 pages
 Language: English |
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Condition: Like New Seller's Comments: In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged SeÐora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin color, not to mention which child is to survive--reverberates throughout Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones. In fact, rather than a celebration of fecundity, the unexpected double delivery gels into a metaphor for the military-sponsored mass murd
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