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Savane Mulet is the nominal landscape of this stream-of-consciousness-influenced novel that inhabits a dreamscape more than any particular town on Guadeloupe in the West Indies, where the great 1928 cyclone traumatized Eliette, then eight. Now Hurricane Hugo, whose force and violence unlock repressed memories of grief and loss, bookends Eliette's life. In the interim, a Haitian woman prophesied a girl child for Eliette, but pregnancy never was part of her life, though she so yearned for a child that she broke with her first husband and married a 50-year-old docker who, sadly, proved "inoperative in action" and then died, leaving her doubly embittered, alone in her cabin. Then in Eliette's tropical world of superstition, passions, and forces of nature, energies interlock when the golden jewelry of a woman named Esabelle seemingly brings a heaviness into the air that cracks the sky and leads to murder. Pineau's liquid flow of images, chronological leaps, and varied points of view add up to a treasurable experience for those who stay with it. Whitney Scott
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Polish
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology FROM THE PUBLISHER
Devoted to collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, the Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World series consists of anthologies, by country, that are designed to present to the English-speaking world authors and works deserving international consideration. As a series, the books permit a broad examination of the international crosscurrents in Jewish thought and culture. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland brings together the works of a broad range of modern Jewish writers, most of whom remained in Poland after the Second World War. Although the Nazi genocide wiped out nearly all of the Jewish population in the country, the aftermath of the war has not stifled Jewish writing in Poland but has given it a different direction. A complex body of literature describes Jewish life before the war, documents the Holocaust, and wrestles with its legacyﾽparticularly the difficulties of living in a country where it occurred.
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