In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the r ...
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In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians.
The author of "1959", a "Los Angeles Times" Book Award nominee, returns with the tale of a woman's obsessive search for the truth behind her best friend's death. Alive with wit and sensibility, "Maker of Saints" is a fascinating and provocative novel about art, love, jealousy and friendship in a gli ...
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When the body of a white woman is fished from the waters off Trinidad, the event reunites two childhood friends and forces both to confront a terrible crime they witnessed together two decades earlier. Winner of the American Book Award. Reprint.