General Sun, my brother

Jacques Stéphen Alexis

Original title: Compère Général Soleil

earliest edition we have, 1982 University Press of Virginia, 1999 299 pages

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A novel on the exploitation of the poor in the Caribbean. The hero is a Haitian peasant who becomes politicized while in jail. Forced to work as a sugar-cane cutter in the Dominican Republic, he participates in a strike which ends in a massacre.

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KONPÈ JENERAL SOLÈY paperback · 2018 · Educa Vision · 345 pages · 9781626328143
General Sun, my brother edition · 1999 · University Press of Virginia · 299 pages
Compère Général Soleil paperback · 1982 · Gallimard · 350 pages

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