Title:  Windward Heights (Click to order on-line) Author:  Maryse Conde,Richard Philcox (Translator) Publisher:  Soho Press, Incorporated Format:  Trade Cloth "Cond's story is rich and colorful and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader's heart." —Maya Angelou

From The Publisher: 
"Caribbean novelist Maryse Conde reimagines Emily Bronte's passionate novel, Wuthering Heights, as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Rayze and Cathy, the wild, sensuous mulatto daughter of the man who takes him in, raises him, but whose treatment goads Rayze into rebellious flight. In Cuba Rayze makes his fortune, but upon his return he discovers Cathy has wed the weak scion of a socially prominent Creole family that scorns the dark-haired beauty. Rayze determines to be avenged for the loss of his love. His vengeance succeeds into the next generation, haunting both Cathy's daughter and his son."--BOOK JACKET. "In characteristic lush prose, Conde transposes Wuthering Heights to her native island of Guadeloupe, retaining the emotional power of the original while showing us Caribbean society in the wake of emancipation."--BOOK JACKET.

Kirkus Review
WINDWARD HEIGHTS ($24.00; Aug. 18; 364 pp.; 1-56947-161-4). Guadeloupian-born novelist Cond� (The Last of the African Kings, 1997, etc.) rises above her usual accusatory lushness in this rich reimagining of Emily Bront�'s Wuthering Heights: the lavish tale (recounted by several narrators) of ``a mulatto girl as poor as a church mouse madly in love with a black boy even poorer than herself.'' For once, Cond�'s tiresomely explicit condemnations of racial and ethnic prejudice and injustice are subordinated to a real story, dominated by vivid characters (her Heathcliff, the Byronic-demonic Rayz� and his several hot-blooded sons are especially flamboyant romantic figures)and enriched by frequent illustrations of the ``voodoo'' religion of Santeria. A Third World ``Duel in the Sun'': over the top, as always, but nevertheless one of its author's most involving and satisfying novels.