Seven versions of a Caribbean legend--each told in a different dialect--describe the birth of a mysterious frogchild to Magdelena Divina, a patron saint worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Indians, Africans, and Catholics
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About the Author:
ROBERT ANTONI is the author of the landmark novel Divina Trace, for which he received a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and an NEA grant. His other books include Blessed Is the Fruit, My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales, and Carnival. He was a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow (for his work on As Flies to Whatless Boys), and recently received the NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. He now lives in Manhattan and teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School University.
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- PublisherOverlook Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 087951485X
- ISBN 13 9780879514853
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages436
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