Divina Trace
by Robert Antoni
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A mysterious child, half human, half-frog, is born on the island of Corpus Christi in the West Indies. Its mother becomes Magdalena Divina, patron saint of the island, worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Cast Indians, Africans, Catholics and indigenous Indians alike. The frogchild, allegedly drowned in a pot of callaloo by the wife of the man who sired it, becomes the focus of an evolving legend as Johnny Domingo hears this story, about his family from different people and tries, impossibly, to show more piece it together into one coherent and true account. show lessTags
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Horrendous!As previously posted, the only good thing about this novel is the page mirror in the center.The writer was trying too hard to create some aberrant stream of consciousness, artsy fartsy, intellectual post-colonial fictional discourse and literary work: he succeeded; I had to read this in a post-colonial Carribean grad course where it was embraced by a high-browed prof. A wretched work! I learned to know crap is to avoid reading crap.
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- 1991
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