Massacre River
β RenΓ© PhiloctΓ¨te; Linda Coverdale; Edwidge Danticat; Lyonel Trouillot
π Fiction
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2005
π New Directions
π English
In 1937 the power-mad racist Generalissimo Trujillo ordered the slaughter of thousands and thousands of Haitians and, as Philoctete puts it, death set up shop everywhere. At the heart of <em>Massacre River</em> is the loving marriage of the Dominican Pedro and the Haitian Adele in a little town on t