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This Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during a drought.

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Author:   Jacques Roumain ,  J. Michael Dash ,  Mercer Cook
Publisher:   Heinemann Educational Books
Imprint:   Heinemann Educational Books
Dimensions:   Width: 12.30cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 18.60cm
Weight:   0.041kg
ISBN:  

9780435987459

ISBN 10:   0435987453
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   17 July 1978
Recommended Age:   From 5 to 12 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  Young adult ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  General ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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A leading Haitian poet and novelist, militant champion of the masses (up to his recent death)- here represented in a polemic, with a pagan lyricism, of the dark-skinned, superstition and poverty ridden people of Haiti. Returning to Haiti from Cuba after fifteen years' absence, Manuel brings with him a spirit of resistance and rebellion, a determination to rescue his people from their famished existence from an earth which has gone dry. Finding a new source of water, he becomes the master of the dew , is killed by an old opponent because of his love for Annaise, daughter of an enemy family, but leaves his people reconciled and salvaged...A limited market. (Kirkus Reviews)

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