Books set in Haiti (36)
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21.
L'énigme du retour by Dany Laferrière FR
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
"Il m'a donné naissance. / Je m'occupe de sa mort. / Entre naissance et mort / on s'est à peine croisés" (p. 276). Prose et vers libre entremêlés, l'auteur raconte l'histoire d'un Haïtien immigré à Montréal qui retourne dans son pays natal, 33 ans après l'avoir quitté. C'est l'annonce de la mort de son père, lui-même exilé à New York, qu'il n'avait pas revu depuis la petite enfance et qu'il lui faut maintenant enterrer, qui l'amène à accomplir ce voyage qui est par bien des côtés une façon symbolique de (se) rapatrier son père. Selon Danielle Laurin, le livre le plus achevé de Laferrière à ce ... continue
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Love, Anger, Madness : A Haitian Trilogy by Marie Chauvet EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Now in English for the first time, this major work of Haitian literature is a powerfully rendered response to life under an oppressive regime Suppressed immediately upon publication in 1968 and finally released in France in 2005, this stunning trilogy, brilliantly introduced by Edwidge Danticat, is a scathing response to the powerful racial, sexual, and class struggles that rule Haiti. InLove, three sisters entangle themselves in each other’s love lives, creating a complicated family dynamic that echoes the growing chaos outside of the house. InAnger, the daughter of a middle-class family terr... continue
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Love, Anger, Madness : A Haitian Triptych by Marie Vieux-Chauvet EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The only English translation of “a masterpiece” (The Nation)—a stunning trilogy of novellas about the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge Danticat Originally published in 1968, Love, Anger, Madness virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s repressive rule, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s writing was so powerful and so incendiary that she was forced to flee to the United States. Yet Love, Anger, Madness endures. Claire, the narrator of Lo... continue
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Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
An award-winning, lyrically written, beautifully haunting saga of a Haitian family's fight against a curse spanning four generations.
25.
Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, and provokes.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year) In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of m... continue
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Palabras, Ojos, Memoria by Edwidge Danticat ES
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
Set in Haiti's impoverished villages and in New York's Haitian community, this is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then summoned to America. In New York, Sophie discovers that Haiti imposes harsh rules on its own. (OneSource)
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Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun : A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti by Vilmond Joegodson Déralciné, Paul Jackson EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were liberated and emboldened to believe that they could take control of their lives. But how? Joining hundreds of thousands of other peasants trying to adjust to urban life, Joegodson and his family sought work and a means of survival. But all they found was low-waged assembly plant jobs of the sort to which the repressive Duvalie... continue
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Soleil à coudre by Jean d'Amérique FR
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
C'est une lecture difficile tant pour le sujet abordé que pour le style d'écriture qui contribue à alourdir une histoire déjà chargée. On est dans le tragique du début à la fin et il n'y a aucun moyen de reprendre son souffle. J'ai trouvé ça un peu pénible.
30.
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend : Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
In the vein of 'What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Blacker' and 'We Are Never Meeting in Real Life', Ben Philippes candid memoir-in-essays chronicles a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces.