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# The Farming of Bones

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desertcart.com: The Farming of Bones: 9781616953492: Danticat, Edwidge: Books

Review: Wonderful and heartbreaking - I think that Edwidge Danticat is a great writer, if not one of the best! I have been going to Haiti on medical missions for 17 years. The people and the stories will always be on my heart, along with Edwige's books. She captures the heart and soul of Haiti.
Review: Breaking Bones..... - Sad, but stunningly beautiful, FARMING OF THE BONES is a powerfully written evocative account of the horror of the genocide committed in 1937 against poor Haitian cane workers and others by the Dominican General Rafael Trujillo. Through the voice of a young orphaned Haitian woman, Amabelle Desir, we follow the lives of desperate Haitian exiles working the Dominican cane fields in deplorable conditions with paltry wages and sparse living conditions. Danticat is a master storyteller and her prose lifts and carries, even as the atrocities of what she is telling unfold on the page. She travels a very painful path with humbling grace. She allows the reader to witness grave injustices while keeping them safely wrapped in her beautiful and poignant prose. . Dreaming... remembering...and family are strong elements which serve to enrich the story and draw the reader in as the reality of the despair becomes readily apparent. Trujillo wants to 'whiten' his populace and thus begins the recounting of an unimaginable and shocking ethnic cleansing. Towards the end of the novel, a man says "Famous men never truly die... It is only those nameless and faceless who vanish like smoke in the early morning air." ...on the island which Haiti and The Dominican Republic share. Through the eyes of the narrator, Amabelle working as a maid in the Dominican Republic, we see scores of Haitians cruely massacred. None of those killed is anyone famous, nearly all the slaughtered are poor Haitians working as cheap labor in the neighboring country, but Amabelle's story serves to refute those words spoken about the nameless and faceless of the earth. In this book, they are remembered, and in her story they do have names and faces.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #47,455 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #82 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books) #123 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #2,191 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 767 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful and heartbreaking
*by L***H on April 19, 2021*

I think that Edwidge Danticat is a great writer, if not one of the best! I have been going to Haiti on medical missions for 17 years. The people and the stories will always be on my heart, along with Edwige's books. She captures the heart and soul of Haiti.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Breaking Bones.....
*by S***Z on September 19, 2008*

Sad, but stunningly beautiful, FARMING OF THE BONES is a powerfully written evocative account of the horror of the genocide committed in 1937 against poor Haitian cane workers and others by the Dominican General Rafael Trujillo. Through the voice of a young orphaned Haitian woman, Amabelle Desir, we follow the lives of desperate Haitian exiles working the Dominican cane fields in deplorable conditions with paltry wages and sparse living conditions. Danticat is a master storyteller and her prose lifts and carries, even as the atrocities of what she is telling unfold on the page. She travels a very painful path with humbling grace. She allows the reader to witness grave injustices while keeping them safely wrapped in her beautiful and poignant prose. . Dreaming... remembering...and family are strong elements which serve to enrich the story and draw the reader in as the reality of the despair becomes readily apparent. Trujillo wants to 'whiten' his populace and thus begins the recounting of an unimaginable and shocking ethnic cleansing. Towards the end of the novel, a man says "Famous men never truly die... It is only those nameless and faceless who vanish like smoke in the early morning air." ...on the island which Haiti and The Dominican Republic share. Through the eyes of the narrator, Amabelle working as a maid in the Dominican Republic, we see scores of Haitians cruely massacred. None of those killed is anyone famous, nearly all the slaughtered are poor Haitians working as cheap labor in the neighboring country, but Amabelle's story serves to refute those words spoken about the nameless and faceless of the earth. In this book, they are remembered, and in her story they do have names and faces.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sad read
*by M***L on December 31, 2013*

I like Edwidge Danticat's style of writing. The topic of this book is real while the characters are not. Still made it a very sad read. It also made me read me on the topic.

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