A searing, brutally realistic novel of race relations in the deep south, finally back in print for the first time in 70 years.
"The most moving and convincing novel of the South that I have ever read. It has just the right degree of realism...it spares no one." Howard University Professor Alain LeRoy Locke, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar.
Acting bad came easily to everyone on the huge, isolated Mississippi delta plantation...until the tensions between the white overseers and the black sharecroppers exploded in bloodshed... leaving a white man dead and Brother Jackson, a black man, falsely jailed for murder and facing certain death in a rigged trial.
Ivan Balin is a Chinese-Russian man who lives in Tokyo and dreams of moving to America. He is involved in heated affair with Faye Wilson, an intensely erotic, and intensely neurotic, American woman in Tokyo, but he also finds himself passionately drawn to Tamiko, a high-bred, Japanese beauty. Tamiko is skilled in the arts of love, but forbidden to practice them with men of other races -- until she decides that to win Ivan for herself, she must spirit him away to a mountain retreat and break every taboo she knows. 
Robert Clover, a devout Catholic, haunted by a shattered marriage and the shame of his own sterility, journeys to the Mediterranean island of San Jaime, where he hopes a miracle will cure his infertility. While there, he's befriended by Buck, a Canadian writer who is battling his homosexual yearnings by bedding any woman on the island he can find. Robert soon falls passionately in love with Nieves, a twenty-year-old housekeeper, and when she becomes pregnant, he believes his miracle has been granted...or has it? While Buck, unable to ignore his desires, falls for Paco, a local man, and is targeted for blackmail. 
A bold, stunning, and critically-acclaimed novel of struggle, injustice, violence and lust, now rediscovered and back in print for the first time in over sixty years.
It's 1959. A small town in the deep south is rocked to its racist core when Maybelle Brown arrives from Philadelphia and becomes the first black, female student ever enrolled in the local college. But that's only the beginning. Soon Maybelle becomes romantically involved with a white man, crossing an unthinkable line among a community terrified by the "rising tide of color." 
Tou'saint Chaney is shot down over the Pacific during WWII... and spends seven years as a castaway on a desert island before he's rescued. The experience radically changes him, physically and spiritually. He returns home with a new love for his fellow man and a deep devotion to God...attitudes that put him in dangerous conflict with everyone from his old way of life.