Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet--an award won by such
distinguished authors as Maryse Conde, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphael
Confiant-- Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation
that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haiti's most
vital authors, Evelyne Trouillot. Trouillot introduces us to a
bedridden widow of a notorious dictator (in effect, a portrait of
Papa Doc Duvalier) and the young emigre who attends to her needs
but who harbors a secret--the bitter loss she feels for her mother,
a victim of the dictator's atrocities. The story that unfolds is a
deftly plotted psychological drama in which the two women in turn
relive their radically contrasting accounts of the dictator's
regime. Partly a retelling of Haiti's nightmarish history under
Duvalier, and partly an exploration of the power of memory,
Trouillot's novel takes a suspenseful turn when the aide
contemplates murdering the old widow. Memory at Bay was praised by
the Prix Carbet committee for the way it treats the enigmas of
destiny and for a pairing of characters whose voices bring the
narrative to the edge of the ineffable.
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