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The Cost of Sugar
Cynthia McLeod
Overview
The Cost of Sugar
is the successful debut of Suriname’s most celebrated historical novelist, Cynthia McLeod. First published in 1987, the novel sold 100,000 copies.
In an engrossing historical account, Cynthia McLeod takes her readers back to the 18th century (between 1765-1779) recapping the intriguing history of those rabid times through the eyes of two Jewish step sisters, Elza and Sarith, descendants of the settlers of ‘New Jerusalem of the River’, know today as Jodensavanne, the oldest Jewish settlement in Surinam, which boasts the first synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.
The Cost of Sugar is a frank exposé of life in the Dutch slave colony when sugar ruled as king – and the tragic toll it took on the lives of colonist and slaves alike.
Translated from the Dutch by Gerald R Mettam
In an engrossing historical account, Cynthia McLeod takes her readers back to the 18th century (between 1765-1779) recapping the intriguing history of those rabid times through the eyes of two Jewish step sisters, Elza and Sarith, descendants of the settlers of ‘New Jerusalem of the River’, know today as Jodensavanne, the oldest Jewish settlement in Surinam, which boasts the first synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.
The Cost of Sugar is a frank exposé of life in the Dutch slave colony when sugar ruled as king – and the tragic toll it took on the lives of colonist and slaves alike.
Translated from the Dutch by Gerald R Mettam
Cynthia McLeod
Cyntha McLeod
was decorated Dame in the Honorary Order of the Golden Palm in 1988 by the president of Surinam. She is the widow of the late Ambassador Donald McLeod, and daughter of Dr. Johan Ferrier, the last governor and first president of Surinam.
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‘An invaluable story’ De Telegraaf
