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The Cross Of Baron Samedi Richard Dohrman

  • SKU: BELL-53903952
The Cross Of Baron Samedi Richard Dohrman
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
File Extension: PDF
File size: 40.4 MB
Author: Richard Dohrman
Language: English
Year: 2023

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The Cross Of Baron Samedi Richard Dohrman by Richard Dohrman instant download after payment.

A Marine lieutenant, his wife, and his native mistress are overtaken by evil fates in Haiti, in the 1920s.
One very interesting and worthwhile novel, THE CROSS OF BARON SAMEDI.
Despite the title, this is not a novel about Haitian Voodoo, though a part of the plot revolves around a kanzo service and the mythology of death and Baron Samedi run throughout the book. It is the story of an American officer, Owen Wiley, his young wife, Isabel, who died a hard death in their first year of marriage in Haiti, her family and the family of a young Haiti gendarme and his elite family.
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about Dohrman's book for a person interested in Haiti is how well he knew the details of the occupation, and how well he knows the Central Plateau, the novel being situated, in part, in Dame Marie, just north of Hinche.
The thrust of the story is the interlinking of two themes. The story of Owen Wiley's regime in Dame Marie as well as his wife's death there, and the interrelationship between Lieutenant Wiley and the Carraud family, whose head is expected to be the next president of Haiti.
Dohrman demonstrates a detailed knowledge of what was going on in the occupation, especially the rise of noirism, among the elite, and the subtle, if subdued, resistance after the end of the Caco war. The novel itself takes place in 1930.
Along the way one is treated to surprising subtle insights, such as his description while Lieutenant Wiley is attending an Independence Day dance at the National Palace, he observes that the room was divided into three groups:
    the occupation officers and wives.
    the elite
    the government officials.

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