The Migration of Hearts) is a novel by Maryse Condé, written in French and first published in 1995 by Robert Laffont.
[2] Set in Cuba and Guadeloupe at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel is a reworking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847).
The novel comprises 41 chapters and is divided into five parts, each of which represent one of the islands (Cuba, Basse-Terre, Marie-Galante, Roseau) where the story takes place.
Maryse Condé remains faithful to Brontë's novel by telling the story of Razyé's revenge on the Linnseuil family.
Alongside Wuthering Heights, Condé invoked the work of Jean Rhys as an inspiration, particular her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea (based on Charlotte Brontë's 1847 Jane Eyre).
[9] Kirkus Reviews concluded that Windward Heights was "one of its author's most involving and satisfying novels".