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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... 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 ...
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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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