Title: Compère Général Soleil
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.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, Literatura Expressao Francesa, Politics and government, Fiction, Social life and customs, Political fiction