Children of Kaywana

This is Hendrickje's story. Tall and beautiful, she inherited Kaywana's Indian grace - and her cruelty. Around her, the ruling white men struggle for possession of the settlements. Pirates burn and pillage. The slave rebellion comes slowly to a boil. But Hendrickje fearlessly pursues her one obsession. To gain it, she tortures herself and the men around her. There are many things for which she will kill, but only one for which she will die. [Bantam, 1986] A SAGA OF SIN... This is a shocking book--the violent, panoramic chronicle of a family born of vice and brutality, bred to arrogance and lust and greed.... Beginning with Kaywana, half-civilized daughter of an English father and a native mother, the author creates with stark reality a powerful narrative of 150 years in a strange culture, set against a background of war, tropical passions and jungle rebellions. This is a novel charged with the defiant brutality of an exotic family. It moves with relentless fury through debauchery and endless conflict from its first page to its last. [Grafton, 1986]