The enigma of the return
Laferrière, Dany2018
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Windsor Laferrière is an exiled Haitian writer, forced to flee his homeland as a political dissident. He has lived in Montreal for 33 years and now suffers from writer's block. His father of the same name has just died in New York, where he himself lived as an emigre for 50 years. Windsor decides to travel to Haiti via New York to attend the funeral and inform his mother of the death. Leaving behind the freezing winter of Montreal - something he has never got used to - for the wet heat of Haiti, Windsor is faced with the grim truth of life in his homeland - the endemic poverty and starvation, the thwarted ambitions and broken dreams. But only here can he become a writer again.
Main title:
The enigma of the return / Dany Laferrière ; translated by David Homel.
Author:
Laferrière, Dany, authorHomel, David, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2018.
Collation:
240 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780857059536 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.92FICTION
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
2714628
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