Windward Heights
Maryse Condé
ISBN: 9781569472163
Published: July, 2003
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Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature
Prizewinning writer Maryse Condé reimagines Emily Brontë's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Razyé and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Razyé in and raises him, but whose treatm...
Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature
Prizewinning writer Maryse Condé reimagines Emily Brontë’s passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the “African” Razyé and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Razyé in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Condé shows the Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.
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“Condé is a masterly storyteller who also proves deft at reinterpreting other people's stories, as she shows here with this energetic re-imagining of Wuthering Heights here set in Cuba and Guadeloupe at the turn of the century. ”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Through [Condé's] transformation of the tragedy in Wuthering Heights, she creates a narrative that seduces, evokes and makes us think about the kinds of emotions that have moved human beings throughout our existence.”