"The Stone that the Builder Refused "is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell's masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution-the first successful slave revolution in history-which begins with "All Souls' Rising "(a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with "Master of the Crossroads." Each of these three novels can be read independently of the two others; of the trilogy, "The Baltimore Sun" has said, "[It] will make an indelible mark on literary history-one worthy of occupying the same shelf as Tolstoy's "War and Peace.""
Reviews
"Extraordinary. . . . Exhilarating. . . . These books do what novels are meant to do: they propose their own vivid and inexorable history." --"The New York Times Book Review ""A towering work. . . . Bell has emerged as one of the most brilliant, artistic and daring historical novelists of our time. . . . He has created that rarest of works, a masterpiece."-"Chicago Tribune ""Glows with unquenchable life. . . . Just as characters in "The Stone" are possessed by the lwa--spirits who guide souls--so too has Bell opened to the spirits of his characters, imagined and real." --"Los Angeles Times " "Spellbinding. . . . Skillfully executed. . . . The author's portrait of Toussaint is astounding in its intensity, complexity and detail." --"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ""Must be considered among the most important artistic accomplishments of our . . . century. . . . Could easily cement Bell's reputation as one of his generation's greatest authors." --"San Francisc
