Chita: A Memory of Last Island - Paperback
by Lafcadio Hearn (Author)
Hearn paints life on a marshy, eclectic Gulf Coast island in the middle of the 19th century. Chita is a young white girl who is orphaned by a shipwreck and then adopted by a Spanish family on the island.
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.
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