Chita: a Memory of Last Island: or the Holbey Family: a National Tale: 1 - Softcover

Hearn, Lafcadio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406942529 ISBN 13: 9781406942521

Publisher: Hard Press, 2006

Synopsis

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About this title

From the Back Cover:

Written during a ten-year stay in New Orleans, Chita was Lafcadio Hearn's first novel. It is filled with beautiful language and emotion, and evokes a true sense of the location and the era.

Images are expertly imbued into the mind by vivid description. In Chita, Hearn paints life on a marshy, eclectic Gulf Coast island in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Chita is a young white girl who is orphaned by a shipwreck and then adopted by a Spanish family on the island. Languages, cultures, and people collide and meld into a nebulous, but distinctive, way of life.

Author Lafcadio Hearn was a man who wrote with perception and flair about the exotic places he was inexplicably drawn to.

About the Author:

Hearn (1850-1904) was born in Levkas, Greece, as the son of Greek and British parents. In 1869 he went to the United States and did various work, finally as a journalist. In 1890 he came to Japan and taught English in Japanese schools, and became a Japanese citizen under the name of Koizumi Yakuma. He died in Tokyo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hard Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1406942529
• ISBN 13: 9781406942521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66