Massacre River

by René Philoctète and Linda Coverdale

Book Overview

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 Massacre River is the loving marriage of the Dominican Pedro and the Haitian Adele in a little town on the Dominican border. On his way to work, Pedro worries that a massacre is in the making; an olive-drab truck packed with armed soldiers rumbles by. And then the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811215857
• ISBN13: 9780811215855
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.1"