Leonora
Subtitle: The Buried Story of Guadeloupe (C a R a F Books)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: January 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780813915159
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Novels, other prose & writers; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Leonora; Christianity; History - General History; French; Reference; Guadeloupe; West Indies; Lâeonora; General; Biography; Christian biography; Social life and customs
First sentence: The coconut palm my parents planted is by now quite tall, the one they planted on the spot where my umbilical cord is buried, in the hamlet of Carangaise, in the parish of Capesterre-Belle-Eau, in Guadeloupe.