2000 Nominated
Windward Heights
ABOUT
THE BOOK
This novel is an imaginative transposition of Wuthering Heights to a Caribbean context, where Heathcliff is reincarnated in the character Rayze, and Cuba and Guadeloupe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century form the backdrop to the murderous passion which binds him to Cathy. All-consuming love, ancient hatreds, family rivalries, the mysterious forces of religion, a society in transition in the wake of emancipation – retaining all the emotional power of the original, the author offers a vivid picture of a way of life which embodies all the complex social and historical forces which produced it.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Richard
Philcox
Richard Philcox is a translator. He has also published new translations of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has taught translation on various American campuses and won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts for the translation of Maryse Condé’s works.
Richard Philcox is a translator. He has also published new translations of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has taught translation on various American campuses and won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts for the translation of Maryse Condé’s works.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
French
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Translator
Richard Philcox
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