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Simone Schwarz-Bart, Barbara Bray, tr.
New York Review Books Classics, 2013
Born in 1938 on the southwest coast of France, Caribbean writer Simone Schwarz- Bart spent her childhood in Guadeloupe, an island in the Lesser Antilles. She later studied in Paris, where she met and would marry the French writer André Schwarz-Bart, with whom she has co-authored a number of works. She has traveled extensively, and has also written another novel and a play. In this new edition of her best-seller The Bridge of Beyond, her narrative and Barbara Bray's 1974 translation from the French both hold up well, confirming the novel's status as a tour de force of Caribbean literature.
Originally published in French as Pluie et vent sur Téîumée Miracle (1972), Bridge is part chronicle, part ballad, and part fable-a rhythmic fictional...