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Bruised Hibiscus Paperback - 2003
by Elizabeth Nunez
This darkly lush story (based on a real-life crime) is rife with symbolism, ominous powers and tension between races and classes. The mutilated body of a white female doctor washes ashore in Trinidad. Two local women hear of the murder, and decide to make a pilgrimage to a neighboring town to pray to Our Lady of Fatima.
First line
It didn't take long for the news to beat through the bamboo and the mangrove bush off the shore from Freeman's Bay in Otahiti, to spread like wildfire once the fisherman, his brown skin turned tar black by the sun, and leathered by the salt in the wind and sea, staggered into the Oropouche Police Station.
From the jacket flap
The year is 1954. A white woman's body, stuffed in a coconut bag, has washed ashore in Otatiti, Trinidad, and the British colony is rife with rumors. In two homes, one in a distant shantytown, the other on the outskirts of a former sugar cane estate, two women hear the news and their blood runs cold. Rosa, the white daughter of a landowner, and Zuela, the adopted "daughter" of a Chinese shop owner used to play together as girls--and witnessed something terrible behind a hibiscus bush many years ago.
Details
- Title Bruised Hibiscus
- Author Elizabeth Nunez
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher One World, New York
- Date March 4, 2003
- ISBN 9780345451095 / 0345451090
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Friendship
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Essence, 10/01/2011, Page 84
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