Authors: Diane Wolkstein, Edwidge Danticat
ISBN-13: 9780805210774, ISBN-10: 0805210776
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
When Diane Wolkstein, herself a well-known storyteller, traveled throughout the Haitian countryside in search of stories, she harvested a rich collection of twenty-seven tales, each of which is illuminated by fascinating introductory notes. From orange trees growing at the command of a child to talking fish, these stories present us with a world of wonder, delight, and mystery.
Foreword | ||
Spirit, Sovereignty, Story: The Magic Orange Tree Twenty Years Later | ||
Introduction | 2 | |
The Magic Orange Tree | 13 | |
The Two Donkeys | 23 | |
Owl | 29 | |
Put That Man to Bed | 37 | |
Four Hairs from the Beard of the Devil | 43 | |
The Case of the Uncooked Eggs | 49 | |
Tayzanne | 57 | |
Cat and Dog and the Return of the Dead | 65 | |
The One Who Would Not Listen to His Own Dream | 71 | |
Papa God and General Death | 75 | |
Bouki-Dances the Kokioko | 79 | |
Papa God Sends Turtle Doves | 87 | |
The Singing Bone | 91 | |
The Gizzard | 99 | |
The Monkey Who Asked for Misery | 113 | |
The Name | 117 | |
Cat's Baptism | 123 | |
"I'm Tipingee, She's Tipingee, We're Tipingee, Too" | 129 | |
The Master Thief | 135 | |
Horse and Toad | 143 | |
Mother of the Waters | 151 | |
A Very Happy Donkey | 157 | |
"One, My Darling, Come to Mama" | 165 | |
The Forbidden Apple | 171 | |
"Papa God First, Man Next, Tiger Last" | 177 | |
The Last Tiger in Haiti | 183 | |
"Bye-bye" | 189 | |
Songs in English and Creole | 195 | |
Acknowledgments | 211 |