| You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot Contributor(s): Prestol Castillo, Freddy (Author), Randall, Margaret (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1478003200 ISBN-13: 9781478003205 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $90.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: 863.62 |
| LCCN: 2018044277 |
| Series: Latin America in Translation |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border during the massacre, known as "The Cutting," and documented the atrocities in real time in You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot. Written in 1937, published in Spanish in 1973, and appearing here in English for the first time, Prestol Castillo's novel is one of the few works that details the massacre's scale and scope. Conveying the horror of witnessing such inhumane violence firsthand, it is both an attempt to come to terms with personal and collective guilt and a search to understand how people can be driven to indiscriminately kill their neighbors. |