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Author Cheuse, Alan.

Title Song of slaves in the desert / Alan Cheuse.

Publication Info. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F CHEUSE, A.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F CHEUSE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC CHEUSE, A    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  CHEUSE    Check Shelf
Description 500 pages ; 24 cm
Note "A novel of slavery and the Southern wild"--Jacket.
Summary In his latest novel, Cheuse covers an extensive swath of history, from Australopithecus walking though volcanic ash up to 19th-century America. He manages this through intertwining story lines. One traces the seemingly timeless journey from Timbuktu to other parts of West Africa of several generations of African women caught in the slave trade. The other introduces us to a family of Jewish slave-holding plantation owners outside Charleston, SC, who buy an African woman from that lineage at the slave market. A young scion of the New York branch of the family visits the plantation and falls in love with the woman's daughter, a beautiful slave girl named Liza.
Subject Slavery -- Africa -- History -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction.
Plantations -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction.
Jews -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Jewish fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781402242991 hbk.. alkaline paper
1402242999 hardback alkaline paper
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