Love, Anger, Madness
A Haitian Triptych
$41.47
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2019
Summary
The only English translation of “a masterpiece” (The Nation)—a stunning trilogy of novellas about the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge Danticat.
Originally published in 1968, Love, Anger, Madness virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s repressive rule, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s writing was so powerful and so …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812976922 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0812976924 |
| Author: | Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Rose-Myriam Rejouis |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm |
| Series: | Torchbearers |
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About The Author
Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Marie Vieux-Chauvet, a seminal writer of postoccupation Haiti, was born in Port-au-Prince in 1916 and died in New York in 1973. She is the author of five novels, including Dance on the Volcano, Fonds des N gres, Fille d’Haiti, and Les Rapaces.
Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur have translated two novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, Solibo Magnificent and Texaco. Their translation of Love, Anger, Madness was supported by a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is the author of Brother, I’m Dying; Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!; The Farming of Bones; and The Dew Breaker. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters.
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