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For seventeen years, Narcisse Dieze, chronic sufferer of a
mysterious condition called "cerebral rheumatism"; has lived in the
protective confines of a psychiatric hospital. There he has been
attended by a contingent of nurses, for whom he has obligingly
fathered somewhere between thirty-five and one hundred seventy-one
children. (No one knows the exact number.) But the doctors abruptly
decide that he is cured and prod him to reenter the outside world.
Narcisse is floored, yet he gradually summons the will to try. What
follows is an account of this naive and timid patient's adventures
in the realm of the so-called sane. An endearing misfit in the
tradition of Walter Mitty and Forrest Gump, Narcisse is destined to
totter precariously on the highwire of his existence. Will we see
him fall? A quirky fable that pokes holes in the accepted mental
health verities and pleads for a touch of madness. With an
introduction by Warren Motte.
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Memory at Bay (Hardcover)
Evelyne Trouillot; Translated by Paul Curtis Daw; Afterword by Jason Herbeck
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R1,782
Discovery Miles 17 820
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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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Memory at Bay (Paperback)
Evelyne Trouillot; Translated by Paul Curtis Daw; Afterword by Jason Herbeck
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R797
Discovery Miles 7 970
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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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