by Maryse Conde

Prizewinning writer Maryse Cond reimagines Emily Bront's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the 'African' Rayz and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Rayz in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Cond shows us Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.