Search Results: masters of the dew a novel by roumain jacques 1907 1944

New York:: Reynal & Hitchcock,, (1947). Hardcover -. Significant browning to the pages, otherwise very good in a good only dj with edgewear, some small chips, sunning to the spine and more. . Liberty Book Club noted on dustjacket flap. A deceptively simple story of a young man who returns to his Haitian village after spending several years on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to find that the peaceful oasis he remembered is a community torn apart by poverty and feuds. As the founder of the 'Revue Indigene' Roumain was instrumental in creation of Haitian literature that reflected the real Haiti. Translated and with an Introduction by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook, translators. Glossary. x, 180 pp.