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1 online resource |
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Cover Page; Praise for the Writing of Nalo Hopkinson; Title Page; Beat ..., ; Paris, 1842; Break/; Beat!; One-; Drop; Blues; Paris, 1842; Sister; Soul; Throwing; Paris, 1842; Word; Slide; Rattle; Chain; Break; Water; Alexandria, Egypt, 345 C.E.; Propping; Paris, Spring 1844; Sorrow; Blood; Paris, 1842; Paris, September 1844; Sing; Rip; Paris, June 30, 1845; Paris, August 1848; Tide; Ebb; Beat; Break/; 1859, Paris Maison Municipale De Santé; Rattle; Alexandria, Egypt, 345 C.E.; Neuilly, France; Drink; Saw; Jizz; Alexandria, Egypt, 345 C.E; Jazz; Rock; Saint Domingue; Down; See; Blow; Hole; Riff |
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AcknowledgmentsAbout the Author; Copyright Page |
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Nebula Award Finalist: This?sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic ... tour de force? blends fantasy, folklore, and the history of women and slavery (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. Led by a lesbian healer and midwife named Mer, the women's lamentations inadvertently release the dead infant's?unused vitality? to draw Ezili--the Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love--into the physical world. As Ezili explores her newfound powers, she travels across time and space to inhabit the midwife's body--as well as those of Jeanne, a mixed-race dancer and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire living in 1880s Paris, and Meritet, an enslaved Greek-Nubian prostitute in ancient Alexandria. Bound together by Ezili and?the salt road? of their sweat, blood, and tears, the three women struggle against a hostile world, unaware of the goddess's presence in their lives. Despite her magic, Mer suffers as a slave on a sugar plantation until Ezili plants the seeds of uprising in her mind. Jeanne slowly succumbs to the ravages of age and syphilis when her lover is unable to escape his mother's control. And Meritet, inspired by Ezili, flees her enslavement and makes a pilgrimage to Egypt, where she becomes known as Saint Mary. With unapologetically sensual prose, Nalo Hopkinson, the Nebula Award-winning author of Midnight Robber, explores slavery through the lives of three historical women touched by a goddess in this?electrifying bravura performance by one of our most important writers? (Junot Díaz) |
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Kurssikirja: hkt |
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Mary, of Egypt, Saint -- Fiction
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Duval, Jeanne -- Fiction
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Duval, Jeanne. fast (OCoLC)fst00376185 |
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Mary, of Egypt, Saint. fast (OCoLC)fst00018096 |
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Women -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction
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Spirit possession -- Fiction
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Time travel -- Fiction
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Prostitutes -- Fiction
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Goddesses -- Fiction
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Fantasy fiction.
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FICTION -- Magical Realism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Goddesses.
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Prostitutes.
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Spirit possession.
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Time travel.
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Women.
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Caribbean Area -- Fiction
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France -- Fiction
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Egypt -- Fiction
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Caribbean Area.
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Egypt.
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France.
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Time-travel fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Time-travel fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Electronic book
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9781504001168 |
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1504001168 |
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