The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bells masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolutionthe first successful slave revolution in historywhich begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with Master of the Crossroads. Each of these three novels can be read independently of the two others; of the trilogy, The Baltimore Sun has said, [It] will make an indelible mark on literary historyone worthy of occupying the same shelf as Tolstoys War and Peace.From the Trade Paperback edition.