Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature Prizewinning writer Maryse Cond reimagines Emily Bront's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Razy and Cathy, the half-Creole daughter of the man who takes Razy in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Cond shows Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.
Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature Prizewinning writer Maryse Cond reimagines Emily Bront's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Razy and Cathy, the half-Creole daughter of the man who takes Razy in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Cond shows Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.
