The Enigma of the Return
$24.52
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
4 October 2018
Summary
“An affecting meditation on loss and exile” ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial Times
Windsor Laferriere left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his father dies in New York, himself an exile for half a century, Windsor travels there to attend the funeral, and then back to Haiti to inform his mother of the death.
In Haiti, Windsor is faced with the grim truth of life in his homeland - the endemic poverty, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857059536 |
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| ISBN-10: | 085705953X |
| Author: | David Homel, Dany Laferrière |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 171g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
This magnificent meditation on loss and political exile looks set to become one of the great poetic statements of homesickness and return … I have not read such an affecting or humane book in years; it should be read by all exiles everywhere. - Independent
This affecting novel investigates a man’s relationship with the island he fled in his youth - Haiti - and the land in which he made a name for himself - Quebec. A meditation on loss and exile. - Financial Times‘Moves fluidly between free verse and prose’ Guardian. - GuardianA poetic, melancholic tour de force … a compelling, intense, stark and poignant exploration of living life as an outsider … The great Haitian novel. - Jo LateuA tour de force of partial autobiography - GQ magazineIn an age of great post-colonial migrations, this is a magnificent book - Nouvel ObservateurAbout The Author
David Homel
Dany Laferriere is a francophone Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Petit Goave, Laferriere worked as a journalist in Haiti before moving to Canada in 1976.
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