Windward Heights

A retelling of Bront's Wuthering Heights set in nineteenth-century Guadeloupe and Cuba.

Prize-winning Caribbean novelist Maryse Cond reimagines Emily Bront's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Rayze and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Rayze in and 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 Cr…