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In the palm of darkness : a novel / Mayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
LIBRA PQ7440.M56 T813 1998 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montero, Mayra, 1952-
- Standardized Title:
- Tú, la oscuridad. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Herpetologists--Fiction.
- Herpetologists.
- Endangered species--Fiction.
- Endangered species.
- Haiti--Fiction.
- Haiti.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperFlamingo edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperFlamingo, 1998.
- Summary:
- From a hot new Caribbean writer comes "a resplendent piece of writing" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW). The quest for an elusive amphibian in the mountains of Haiti brings together an American herpetologist and his Haitian guide, an unlikely pair whose individual stories intertwine in a mesmerizing tale of love, sex, and rivalry against a backdrop of mysterious forces.
- ISBN:
- 0060929065
- 9780060929060
- OCLC:
- 39553687
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