Windward Heights [Paperback]

Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature

Prizewinning writer Maryse Condé reimagines Emily Brontë's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the African Razyé and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Razyé in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Condé shows the Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation.Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature

Praise forWindward Heights

Condé is a masterly storyteller who also proves deft at reinterpretting other people's stories, as she shows here with this energetic reimagining ofWuthering Heightshere set in Cuba and Guadeloupe at the turn of the century.
—The New York Times Book Review

Condé gives Brontë a cultural context . . . a fine and unique accomplishment.
—Washington Post

Through [Condé's] transformation of the tragedy inWuthering Heights, she creates a narrative that seduces, evokes and makes us think about the kinds of emotions that have moved human beings throughout our existence.
—Chicago Tribune

Exotic and eloquent... Condé takes Emily Brontë's cold-climate classic on obsessive love and makes it hot and lush.
—USA Today

“A confident and incisive Caribbeanization of a European master-text by a master novelist of African descent.”
—Village Voice
 
“Condé has given readers an astonishing new way in which to contemplate our ancestral past.”
—Black Issues Book Review
 
“The author weaves in the history of the region along with themes of passionate love, color prejudice, oppression, and social unrest to create an engagl³’