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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Master of the Crossroads about I><a, Souls, Rising</a></I with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: In 1995 the author published <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140259473/${0}">All Souls' Rising</a></I>, earning both critical plaudits and a National Book Award nomination for this fictional account of Haiti's 18th-century slave rebellion. Now he continues the saga with <I>Master of the Crossroads</I>, the second volume of a projected trilogy. Even in his earlier narratives of contemporary America, the author has always been attuned to the byzantine politics of color. But by focusing on the figure of Toussaint Louverture--the black general who led the Haitians to independence only to be jailed for treason against the French Republic--the author allows the politics of race to point him in unexpected and rewarding narrative directions. This is a big, muscular story, which derives much of its strength from the author's willingness to paint his tumultuous political and physical landscapes with broadly sweeping strokes. But it is also a work of surprising delicacy, whose finely drawn characters come to life with the minutest gesture or softly whispered word.
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conversations.value: Now he continues the saga with <I>Master of the Crossroads</I>, the second volume of a projected trilogy. Even in his earlier narratives of contemporary America, the author has always been attuned to the byzantine politics of color. But by focusing on the figure of Toussaint Louverture--the black general who led the Haitians to independence only to be jailed for treason against the French Republic--the author allows the politics of race to point him in unexpected and rewarding narrative directions. This is a big, muscular story, which derives much of its strength from the author's willingness to paint his tumultuous political and physical landscapes with broadly sweeping strokes. But it is also a work of surprising delicacy, whose finely drawn characters come to life with the minutest gesture or softly whispered word.