Masters of the Dew
A man returns to his drought-stricken Haitian village after fifteen years cutting cane in Cuba, carrying the idea that water might be found and shared.
Manuel returns to his village after fifteen years cutting cane in Cuba and finds it parched, feuding and emptying out. He believes water can be found and, more difficult, shared. Written in 1944 and translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook, it remains the novel most often named when Haitian literature is discussed.
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