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Street of Lost Footsteps (Paperback)
Lyonel Trouillot; Translated by Linda Coverdale; Introduction by Linda Coverdale
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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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Children of Heroes (Paperback)
Lyonel Trouillot; Translated by Linda Coverdale
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Their father's favorite saying, between drinks and blows, was,
"Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death."
And now, Colin observes of the man sprawled under all the broken
furniture, their father was definitely and forever out of
surprises. Children of Heroes is the story Colin tells of what
happened-and what happened before that. Testimony, confession, a
child's outpouring: this is his painfully matter-of-fact account of
how he and his older sister, Mariela, killed the man who tyrannized
them and their piously pathetic mother, who is now a "blank." As he
describes their flight from the slum in Haiti to an uncertain
somewhere called "far away," Colin conjures a bleak picture of the
life he and his sister are trying to leave behind. And whether
these two-children only in age-are guilty or merely victims of the
violence festering in their city is a question only the reader can
answer. In its picture of a world in which the heroes and the
destroyers-whether fathers or leaders-are often indistinguishable,
and where life's poetry and poverty are inextricably linked, this
book tells a story of Haiti that is at once intimate, universal,
and otherworldly Lyonel Trouillot is a poet, novelist, and essayist
of the post-Duvalierist generation of Haitian writers. Linda
Coverdale is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the
award-winning translator of over fifty books, including Trouillot's
Street of Lost Footsteps (PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation
Prize finalist) and Patrick Chamoiseau's School Days and Chronicle
of the Seven Sorrows, all available in Bison Books editions.
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