Lafcadio Hearn

Chita (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Sometimes the swamp-forest visibly thins away from these shores into wastes of reedy morass where, even of breathless nights, the quaggy soil trembles to a sound like thunder of breakers on a coast."

Images are expertly imbued into the mind by vivid description. In Chita, Lafcadio Hearn paints life on a marshy, eclectic Gulf Coast island in the middle of the nineteenth century. Chita is a young white girl who is orphaned by a shipwreck and then adopted by a Spanish family on the island. Languages, cultures, and people collide and meld into a nebulous, but distinctive, way of life.

Written during a ten-year stay in New Orleans, Chita was Hearn's first novel. It is filled with beautiful language and emotion, and evokes a true sense of the location and the era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781455602124
• Artikelnr.: 66783516

Autorenporträt

Lafcadio Hearn, also called Koizumi Yakumo, was best known for his books about Japan. He wrote several collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, including Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.