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The Stone that the Builder Refused may be the ultimate amount of Madison Smartt Bell’s outstanding trilogy concerning the Haitian Revolution–the first successful slave revolution in history–which starts with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and proceeds with Grasp of the Crossroads.  Each one of these three books could be read independently of both others; of the trilogy, The Baltimore Sun has stated, “[It] is likely to make an indelible mark on fictional history–one worth occupying exactly the same ledge as Tolstoy’s Battle and Peace.”