false 1846284 0872861899 9780872861893 2 1 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1846284.The_Beast_of_the_Haitian_Hills 842843 Philippe Thoby-Marcelin 11 4 5 0 false Wed Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Jun 06 15:23:44 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 15:37:40 -0700 2008 The Beast of the Haitian Hills (1946) were more well known. For anyone with the remotest interest in voodoo and the literature of the Caribbean, this will prove an excellent and entertaining read. Its city slicker protagonist comes to the country full of arrogance and quickly runs afoul of nature's forces, including a mythical beast called the Cigouave. The book is part magical realism (long before the term was common) part morality play, and all tightly written. You can tell the protagonist is doomed from the beginning, but once you're in the book you want to see his damnation through to the end. ]]>