Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... peasants were so accustomed to their lives of marauding struggle that they viewed any good luck with suspicion . A man has the money to build a new house because he's a loupgarou . And then if a baby falls sick , the loupgarou is eating ...
... peasants were so accustomed to their lives of marauding struggle that they viewed any good luck with suspicion . A man has the money to build a new house because he's a loupgarou . And then if a baby falls sick , the loupgarou is eating ...
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... peasants used to bring the coffee beans in straw baskets carried on their heads . He was a retired judge and he shook with Parkinsonism , stiffly trying to walk in front of his house . I told him I missed Monsieur and Madame Noh . " Yes ...
... peasants used to bring the coffee beans in straw baskets carried on their heads . He was a retired judge and he shook with Parkinsonism , stiffly trying to walk in front of his house . I told him I missed Monsieur and Madame Noh . " Yes ...
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... peasants and urban poor . This was misery like Chad , Upper Volta , and Bangladesh , but located only a short flight from Miami . We ran among Haiti's cheerful suffering , familiar misery . " Only the knife knows the pump- kin's heart ...
... peasants and urban poor . This was misery like Chad , Upper Volta , and Bangladesh , but located only a short flight from Miami . We ran among Haiti's cheerful suffering , familiar misery . " Only the knife knows the pump- kin's heart ...
Table des matières
Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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