Lyonel Trouillot's harrowing novel depicts a night of blazing
violence in modern-day Port-au-Prince and recalls hundreds of years
of violence stretching back even before the birth of Haiti in the
fires of revolution. Three narrators--a madam, a taxi driver, and a
post office employee--describe in almost hallucinatory terms the
escalating chaos of a bloody uprising that pits the partisans of
the Prophet against the murderous might of the great dictator
Deceased Forever-Immortal. The drama of promise and betrayal in
Haitian life inform's "Street of Lost Footsteps" with the grim
irony and savage tenderness characteristic of writers for whom the
repetitiveness of history has gone beyond tragedy, through farce,
and on into insanity. With impressive originality and touching
immediacy, Trouillot explores the nature of political oppression,
memory, and truth.
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