Chita: A Memory of Last Island - Softcover

Lafcadio Hearn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565549716 ISBN 13: 9781565549715

Publisher: Pelican Publishing Co., 2001

Synopsis

“Sometimes the swamp-forest visibly thins away from these shores into wastes of reedy morass where, even of breathless nights, the quaggy soil trembles to a sound like thunder of breakers on a coast.” Images are expertly imbued into the mind by vivid description. In Chita, Lafcadio 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. Written during a ten-year stay in New Orleans, Chita was Hearn’s first novel. It is filled with beautiful language and emotion, and evokes a true sense of the location and the era.

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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:

Born in Greece to an Irish soldier and a Greek mother, Lafcadio Hearn emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. While working as a newspaperman in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hearn married a black woman, which was then illegal, and fled to New Orleans to escape prosecution. Once there, he began to work for the New Orleans Item. During his time in New Orleans, Hearn published several books while continuing his work as a journalist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1565549716
• ISBN 13: 9781565549715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208