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On Black Mountain

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"On Black Mountain" is the epic story of two twins living on a farm near the border between England and Wales. For eighty years, they rarely left the small world confined to nearby towns and farms, yet their lives included everything allotted to every person on this earth: love and cruelty, unrequited passion and betrayal, tender friendship and dreams of distant lands...

"The Viceroy of Ouidah" is a passionate, visionary novel, ablaze with all the colors of the African continent (it has been repeatedly compared to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"; other critics have mentioned the "black magic of the imagination"). Based on true events, it tells the story of Brazilian adventurer Francisco Manuel da Silva, who set out for the infamous Dahomey (now Benin) to become the continent's most powerful slave trader. However, the Dark Continent knows no mercy—neither to foreigners nor to its own children, and Francisco Manuel becomes yet another victim in the sticky nets of the Slave Coast...
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