A Woman Named Solitude
- ISBN-10
- 009944075X
- ISBN-13
- 9780099440758
- Category
- Slave insurrections
- Pages
- 179
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Author
- Andre Schwartz-Bart
Description
Conceived aboard a slave ship bound for the Caribbean, Solitude was born into slavery and sold on the auction block, a black chattel of a corrupt society until she heard the ringing of rebellion on the island wind. Schwarz-Bart, author of The Last of the Just, and whose own terrible experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe here find a clear if distant echo, offers a sensitive and impassioned portrait of a woman and her race, fallen victim to the inhumanity of humankind.
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