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“simone schwarz bart”

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  • The Bridge of Beyond

    by Simone Schwarz-Bart ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from. Time flows unevenly during the long hot blue days as the madness of the island swirls around ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Schwarz-Bart: Pluie et Vent sur Télumée Miracle

    by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Alfred Fralin, Christiane Szeps ...
    Great-granddaughter of Minerve, first woman of the Guadeloupean branch of the Lougandor family to be freed from slavery in 1848, the elderly Telumée tells the story of her own difficult life and that of her ancestors. It is a poor black woman's tale of heroic survival, set in the early 20th century, harsh agrarian environment of a Caribbean island.Through the richly imaged narration of a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    by Heidi W. Durrow ...
    "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." — The New York Times Book ReviewRachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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