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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... peasant crouched in the brush . ( In fact , Haitian peasants wash every chance they get . ) Staffs native to a half - dozen UNESCO member states lugged authorizing memos back and forth from Port - au - Prince to Paris . As a recipient ...
... peasant crouched in the brush . ( In fact , Haitian peasants wash every chance they get . ) Staffs native to a half - dozen UNESCO member states lugged authorizing memos back and forth from Port - au - Prince to Paris . As a recipient ...
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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 and priests , the Americans , with the cooperation of Baby Doc - how could he ? how could he have ? -swept through the country , pignapping , mad with piglust . They gave money for each pig . They would eventually replace the ...
... peasants and priests , the Americans , with the cooperation of Baby Doc - how could he ? how could he have ? -swept through the country , pignapping , mad with piglust . They gave money for each pig . They would eventually replace the ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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