You can cross the massacre on foot / Freddy Prestol Castillo ; translated by Margaret Randall ; and with a foreword by Maria Cristina Fumagalli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prestol Castillo, Freddy, author.

Contributor:

Randall, Margaret, 1936- translator.

Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, writer of supplementary text.

Series:

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução

Standardized Title:

Masacre se pasa a pie. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

History.

Dominican Republic--History--1930-1961--Fiction.

Dominican Republic.

Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937--Fiction.

Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 148 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Summary:

In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti--Dominican Republic border during the massacre, known as "The Cutting," and documented the atrocities in real time in You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot. Written in 1937, published in Spanish in 1973, and appearing here in English for the first time, Prestol Castillo's novel is one of the few works that details the massacre's scale and scope. Conveying the horror of witnessing such inhumane violence firsthand, it is both an attempt to come to terms with personal and collective guilt and a search to understand how people can be driven to indiscriminately kill their neighbors.00Transl. by Margaret Randall.

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Prestol Castillo, Freddy, author. You can cross the massacre on foot

ISBN:

9781478003205

1478003200

9781478003830

1478003839

OCLC:

1046551859