Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiSimon & Schuster, 1992 - 303 pages A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author conducts with this beleaguered island is rich with surprising revelations and startling juxtapositions. "The best all-encompassing explanation of this . . . tragic island country that I have read".--Digby Diehl, Playboy. |
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... African and part German , with both Nazi relatives and African ones , preferred to dominate at tennis . That was a straight line . His first son was named " Hitvelt , " after Hitler and Roosevelt , because he had wanted to be 77.
... African and part German , with both Nazi relatives and African ones , preferred to dominate at tennis . That was a straight line . His first son was named " Hitvelt , " after Hitler and Roosevelt , because he had wanted to be 77.
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... African village - and in this place , Jacmel , I found a Jewish tailor . A few elegantly carpentered Haitian dream houses floated above reality like candy visions , slats and shutters , parapets and magic cages filled with lizards or ...
... African village - and in this place , Jacmel , I found a Jewish tailor . A few elegantly carpentered Haitian dream houses floated above reality like candy visions , slats and shutters , parapets and magic cages filled with lizards or ...
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... African tilapia that Shimon Tal had scattered in the waterways . But now even the tilapia seem mostly disappeared ... Africa 261 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
... African tilapia that Shimon Tal had scattered in the waterways . But now even the tilapia seem mostly disappeared ... Africa 261 BEST NIGHTMARE ON EARTH.
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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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