| Title | : | Chita: A Memory of Last Island (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Lafcadio Hearn |
| Release | : | 2024-09-14 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | Chita: A Memory of Last Island (Unabridg | Lafcadio Hearn |
| Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer, critic and journalist. His novel, Chita: A Memory of Last Island, is about a young girl, Chita, who survives a devastating tropical storm. Last Island, a holiday resort in the Gulf of Mexico, is destroyed by the hurricane that kills Chita’s mother and leaves her adrift at sea. Chita is saved and adopted by a Spanish fisherman, Feliu, and his wife, Carmen, a religious woman who perceives the baby as a gift from God. The descriptions of nature: the Gulf Coast, the islands, the waterways, and sea are epic, Hearn’s account of the storm and the havoc it wrought are spectacular. |
