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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... wife had a harder time , since at that time women were several centuries behind in elite society . She raged at the Haitian wife's conversation , which was mostly on the order of : " Est - ce que vous aimez le Brillo , Ma- dame ? " It ...
... wife had a harder time , since at that time women were several centuries behind in elite society . She raged at the Haitian wife's conversation , which was mostly on the order of : " Est - ce que vous aimez le Brillo , Ma- dame ? " It ...
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... wife's body beside the jar of water . " I already told you about the cochons - sans - poil , blanc . I'll spare you ... wife with riches , and he succeeded , he gave her all sorts of good things , but then he discovered that she ...
... wife's body beside the jar of water . " I already told you about the cochons - sans - poil , blanc . I'll spare you ... wife with riches , and he succeeded , he gave her all sorts of good things , but then he discovered that she ...
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... wife who kept me awake with their violent nighttime quarrels . They beat each other as if they were all their enemies rolled into one available spouse . The doctor appeared in the morning with a freshly blackened eye ; his wife appeared ...
... wife who kept me awake with their violent nighttime quarrels . They beat each other as if they were all their enemies rolled into one available spouse . The doctor appeared in the morning with a freshly blackened eye ; his wife appeared ...
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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