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Windward Heights

by Maryse Conde · 1999

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Prizewinning writer Maryse Conde reimagines Emily Bronte's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Razye and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Razye in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Conde shows the Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.

Setting
19th centuryCaribbean
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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