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Chita: A Memory of Last Island

Chita: A Memory of Last Island

Hearn, Lafcadio

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ISBN10: 1565549716
ISBN13: 9781565549715
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Published: Oct 31 2001
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.08 Depth: 8.06
Language: English

A woman's life is forever changed by a hurricane on a Gulf Coast island in this evocative parable of people living the good life on the edge of the abyss (The Washington Post).

In the mid-nineteenth century, the wealthy find relief from the New Orleans heat on the barrier island of L'Ile Dernière. But when a cataclysmic storm arrives and leaves devastation in its wake, young Chita barely escapes with her life. Presuming that her father, a Creole businessman, has been swept away, she takes refuge on a nearby island where she is adopted by a Spanish family, changing the course of her future.

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

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