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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... told you about the cochons - sans - poil , blanc . I'll spare you a really sad story , although the ending was not so bad . " But then he told me a sad story anyway , this one about the " vlin- bindingues , " loupgarous with long white ...
... told you about the cochons - sans - poil , blanc . I'll spare you a really sad story , although the ending was not so bad . " But then he told me a sad story anyway , this one about the " vlin- bindingues , " loupgarous with long white ...
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... told me . The Red Cross doctor's wife spoke for both of them : " We'll both take the French toast and the orange juice if it's fresh . " At night we ate by the light of oil lamps on the wooden terrace of this gingerbread fantasy house ...
... told me . The Red Cross doctor's wife spoke for both of them : " We'll both take the French toast and the orange juice if it's fresh . " At night we ate by the light of oil lamps on the wooden terrace of this gingerbread fantasy house ...
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... told me his cousin in Jacmel once saw Grande Erzulie dancing on top of a com- mode , told her priest , and the priest berated her for superstitious backsliding . That couldn't have been Grande Erzulie , the great god- dess of fertility ...
... told me his cousin in Jacmel once saw Grande Erzulie dancing on top of a com- mode , told her priest , and the priest berated her for superstitious backsliding . That couldn't have been Grande Erzulie , the great god- dess of fertility ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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