Series: Haiti Series
by Author Madison Smartt Bell
Book
Master of the Crossroads (2004)
When writers become obsessed with their subject matter, the final result can come out as relentless raving, or, as in this case, develop into total and uncompromising immersion.This second volume of Bell's Toussaint Louverture trilogy is as thoroughly mesmerizing as the first. Covering an eight...
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All Souls' Rising (2004)
This historical account of the great slave rebellion in Haiti in the 1790's, in one sense, made me think of the mostly disastrous American military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. In both cases, it was a question of trying to control indigenous political and cultural turmoil with outs...