Caribbean: A Novel, by James A. Michener
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In this acclaimed classic novel, James A. Michener sweeps listeners off to the Caribbean, bringing to life the eternal allure and tumultuous history of this glittering string of islands. From the 1310 conquest of the Arawaks by cannibals to the decline of the Mayan empire, from Columbus's arrival to buccaneer Henry Morgan's notorious reign, from the bloody slave revolt on Haiti to the rise of Cuba's Fidel Castro, Caribbean packs 700 dramatic years into a tale teeming with revolution and romance, authentic characters and thunderous destinies. Through absorbing, magnificent prose, Michener captures the essence of the islands in all of their awe-inspiring scope and wonder.
Caribbean: A Novel, by James A. Michener- Amazon Sales Rank: #6430 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Released on: 2015-09-08
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 1927 minutes
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59 of 63 people found the following review helpful. A book of epic proportions - literally! By Betti Trapp Reader beware - 800 plus pages, so this is no book for story time. Extremely prolific, James A. Michener writes as only he can write about the Caribbean, that vast expanse of ocean surrounded by Cuba, Puerto Rico and the extensive small islands smattered across the seascape. This is a powerful history of these islands, and James Michener takes us from the 1300s when a peaceful tribe of Arawaks are horribly destroyed all the way to Castro's Cuba. This is the sort of book one would do better learning about this area from, as the author weaves plot upon plot into a brilliantly masterminded historical novel. You will learn more from this book about the Caribbean Sea and its islands than any history or geography class could give you, and you will have more fun doing it! I gave it four stars simply because with a book this size, there was bound to be some dreadfully boring parts, and there were. If it were a bit shorter in length it would lack nothing but a Pulitzer.
51 of 54 people found the following review helpful. excellent, in-depth .. top-notch michener By Jason Holloway If you have read and like michener, this is a classic (my personal favorite). If you have not, classic michener means that he takes a very in-depth, well researched area and wraps a novel around it. In Carribean, he looks at the evolution from the Mayan times to the modern, covering the cultures, the facts and the myths. What makes it fun is the way he wraps his exhaustive research of the facts into the regions myths and a set of characters. This makes the novels fun and interesting, because even though the people are ficticious, one identifies more with the stories of people than a textbook approach to the facts.The chapters, dealing with different historical periods, focus on various sub-regions as they wane and wax in power and importance. It particularly appealed to my interest in history and frankly may be tiresome to those who do not have the same passion for history (ie, if you don't like historical accounts, you may not like this book!)Oh, yes, there are pirates, human sacrefice, and you learn where the term barbeque comes from...you may not want to know that!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. You have to take it in context. By Wa'el A lot of negative reviews focus on 3 chapters that come right in a row - about All Saints the made up island, the illegal immigrant from Trinidad and the negatively portrayed Rasta man specifically.I will first say that the first 3/4 of the book are fantastic, rich and exciting tales of Mayan Indians, pirates, rum-runners, buccaneers, bloody revolution and general debauchery that keeps you burning through pages. Then we hit a supposed dead spot as we skip from the late 1890s to 1938.Michener used the same literary device here in Caribbean he used 7 years earlier in his novel Space, despite people complaining because they didn't understand. In Space, Michener replaces Nebraska's exact borders with a state called Freemont, after John Frémont the French-American explorer and proponent of "manifest destiny" - carrying that idea that the US must expand till there's no more room left into outer space as well. In Caribbean, he replaces Saint Lucia with the Island of All Saints. There is a reason for this as well, in metaphor. Look at a map of the Caribbean - you have St Thomas, St John, St Croix, St Martin, St Barthelemy, St Eustatius, St Kitts (Christopher), and St Vincent. All of those islands and most of the rest of them are sub-divided in Parishes (not states, provinces or territories - parishes) similarly named after saints. Trinidad's capital Port-of-Spain resides in San Juan parish, all of Barbados' parishes are named after saints (except for one - Christ's Church Parish in southern Barbados), half of Jamaica's parishes are named after saints, and both Haiti and the Dominican Republic used to be called Saint Dominic in their own languages - Saint-Domingue in French and Santo Domingo in Spanish. Point being, an island called All Saints can serve as a general metaphor of the whole Caribbean. The race relations described in detail on All Saints, the history of changing many colonial owners, the Gommint House, the reliance on American tourists, everything about All Saints serves as an accurate shortcut for the whole Caribbean. That's why he chose to write the story that way. Now as far as the strange wedding that took place their and the English gentlemen's daughter running away with a German military man on the eve of WW2, the point he's making here is demonstrating the role they WANT to play in world politics versus the role they actually play.As for the Trinidad Scholar section, it's sad but true. A large percentage of people from the Caribbean leave for the US and US domination is no joke. The story of the fake marriages is something that was a huge phenomenon at the time.I really can't say anything about the Rasta chapter. It was pretentious garbage after all. I can forgive Michener on the basis that this book came out in 1989 - Michener was born in 1907, making him 82 when the book came out. An 82 year old man can't be expected to react much differently than how he did to the Rasta religion, but how much respect does a regional "religion" based on weed and anti-white racism really merit anyway?All in all, it was a great story and a welcome break. Usual Michener tradition is following 1-3 families through a thousand years in the same place. Instead he talks about a different island in each chapter, giving an easy snapshot without a long intermixed family line to memorize. Trying to understand Hawaii at some points when it was just the same couple of names used over and over again was frustrating, but you won't have that here.Generally speaking it was a lighter Michener book, chapters were shorter than usual and it only took me 2 weeks to read - some have taken me 4 months!I would recommend this to anyone.
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