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Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain, Langston Hughes (Translator), Mercer Cook (Translator), J. Michael Dash (Introduction) Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1978 ISBN-10: 0-435-98745-3 / 0435987453 ISBN-13: 978-0-435-98745-9 / 9780435987459 The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to discover that it is stricken by a drought and divided by a family feud. He attacks the |