General Sun, my brother
Original title: Compère Général Soleil
earliest edition we have, 1982 University Press of Virginia, 1999 299 pages
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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