The New York Timesâbestselling author and National Book Award finalist delivers a powerful Royal Diaries volume with the story of Haitiâs heroic queen. With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haitiâs beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her islandâs rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492.The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people. âA gripping story that shows European invasion from a native Caribbean viewpoint . . . readers will connect with Danticatâs immediate, poetic language, Anacaonaâs finely drawn growing pains, and the powerful, graphic story that adds a vital perspective to the literature about Columbus and European expansion in the Americas.â âBooklist âExplores the life of a proud, young TaÃno woman as she grows into rulership, love, and motherhood . . . The arrival of Columbusâs explorers marks a major turning point in the novel, and Danticat shifts from a languid, poetic style to a tense, high gear that makes it difficult to put the book down.â âHistorical Novel Society
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