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The Farming of Bones
First edition cover
AuthorEdwidge Danticat
CountryUS
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherSoho Press
Publication date
September 1998
Media typePrint
Pages312 pp (hardback)
ISBN1-56947-126-6
OCLC38731998
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3554.A5815 F37 1998

Farming of Bones is a work of historical fiction by Edwidge Danticat, published in 1998. It tells the story of an orphaned young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic who gets caught up in the carnage of the Parsley massacre during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.

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