![]() ![]() ![]() The novel has been called “one of the most sophisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom” by the San Francisco Chronicle and “a work of breathtaking stylistic expertise on a large scale” by the Baltimore Sun. ![]() Madison Smartt Bell is a critically acclaimed writer of more than a dozen novels and two collections of short stories, as well as numerous essays and reviews in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, and others. His epic trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, published from 1995 to 2004, provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.Īll Souls’ Rising, the first novel in the trilogy, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for fiction, which honors books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. ![]()
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