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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... women who married Hai- tians . Living in a black world did not retire the problems of intermar- riage . These women had families , friends , and their own pasts abroad , and they were usually unprepared for the homegrown race prejudice ...
... women who married Hai- tians . Living in a black world did not retire the problems of intermar- riage . These women had families , friends , and their own pasts abroad , and they were usually unprepared for the homegrown race prejudice ...
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... women are . Well , I spread this cock's wings and I sprayed him with rum and I licked his beak in mine and I bet everything I had . My old father's money , too ! And my mother darling's ! My cock fought bravely , friends , yes you know ...
... women are . Well , I spread this cock's wings and I sprayed him with rum and I licked his beak in mine and I bet everything I had . My old father's money , too ! And my mother darling's ! My cock fought bravely , friends , yes you know ...
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... women always want - and gloomy Poles from the village of Casals . And Jews . Amid the descendants of , among others , the gloomy Poles who had survived the Revolution of 1804 , there was also the beautiful Dr. Goldenberg , plump , brown ...
... women always want - and gloomy Poles from the village of Casals . And Jews . Amid the descendants of , among others , the gloomy Poles who had survived the Revolution of 1804 , there was also the beautiful Dr. Goldenberg , plump , brown ...
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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