Windward heights
By: Maryse Condé ; translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
Contributors: Philcox, Richard.
Publisher: Soho
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Description: "Caribbean novelist Maryse Conde reimagines Emily Bronte's passionate novel, Wuthering Heights, as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Rayze and Cathy, the wild, sensuous mulatto daughter of the man who takes him in, raises him, but whose treatment goads Rayze into rebellious flight. In Cuba Rayze makes his fortune, but upon his return he discovers Cathy has wed the weak scion of a socially prominent Creole family that scorns the dark-haired beauty.

Rayze determines to be avenged for the loss of his love. His vengeance succeeds into the next generation, haunting both Cathy's daughter and his son."--BOOK JACKET. "In characteristic lush prose, Conde transposes Wuthering Heights to her native island of Guadeloupe, retaining the emotional power of the original while showing us Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation."--BOOK JACKET.