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898 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1989
A novel that has as its setting a period of history and that attempts to convey the spirit, manners, and social conditions of a past age with realistic detail and fidelity (which is in some cases only apparent fidelity) to historical fact. The work may [...] contain a mixture of fictional and historical characters.Michener´s book is ambitious, as it tries to span the social, political and economical history of the Caribbean from pre-Columbus times to the late 1980s; each chapter is a story set in a different period and, with a few exceptions, a different island. Sometimes descendents of a character pop up in later chapters, thus providing some desperately needs threads to stitch the succession of stories into the tapestry of the region.