General Sun, my brother
By: Jacques Stephen Alexis ; translated and with an introduction by Carrol F. Coates.
Contributors: Coates, Carrol F., 1930-
Series: CARAF books
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxix]-xliii).