Volume 55, Number 12 · July 17, 2008
A Hidden Haitian World
By Madison Smartt Bell
Massacre River
by René Philoctète, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale, with a preface by Edwidge Danticat and an introduction by Lyonel Trouillot
New Directions, 238 pp., $22.95; $13.95 (paper)
The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat
Penguin, 312 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Street of Lost Footsteps
by Lyonel Trouillot, translated from the French and with an introduction by Linda Coverdale
University of Nebraska Press, 115 pp., $45.00; $16.95 (paper)
Children of Heroes
by Lyonel Trouillot, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
University of Nebraska Press, 161 pp., $40.00; $20.00 (paper)
Anthologie secrète
by Carl Brouard
Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 131 pp., CAN$20.00
The Kingdom of This World
by Alejo Carpentier, translated from the French by Harriet de Onìs
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 180 pp., $13.00 (paper)
Krik? Krak!
by Edwidge Danticat
Vintage, 224 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
Vintage, 244 pp., $13.95 (paper)
Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
Knopf, 272 pp., $23.95
Bicentenaire
by Lyonel Trouillot
Paris: Actes Sud, 150 pp., Π13.90 (paper)
Thérèse en mille morceaux
by Lyonel Trouillot
Paris: Actes Sud, 110 pp., Π13.57 (paper)
As close as their nation is to our shores, and as much as its issues are involved with our politics, most Haitian writers are virtually unknown to most American readers. That situation persists both despite and because of the nature of Haitian linguistic culture, which is incredibly fertile but, at least from the Anglophone point of view, almost completely obscure.
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