Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780061988240
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Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritÉ — known as TÉtÉ — is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of cruelty and dread, TÉtÉ finds support in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.
When twenty-year-ancient Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor simple. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride — but marriage, too, proves more hard than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.
Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving tale of the intertwined lives of TÉtÉ and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find like amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.
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I am originally from haiti, and is currently reading this book on my Kindle. I absolutely like it. It’s obvious the leader did hours of research on the history of Haiti, and it’s then relationship with France. The accuracy of the cruelty of slavery, including the treatment of Mulattos towards the blacks. The intertwining of Christianity, versus the need of the Africans to hold onto the practice of Voodoo. After all, what appeared as the “white’s” religion, was used to justify their oppresion. It is a very informative read. I highly recommend it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5