The Enigma of the Return (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
240
Utgivningsdatum
2018-10-04
Förlag
MacLehose Press
Översättare
David Homel
Dimensioner
201 x 148 x 15 mm
Vikt
170 g
ISBN
9780857059536

The Enigma of the Return

av Dany Laferrire
Häftad,  Engelska, 2018-10-04
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"An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial Times Windsor Laferrire 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, the thwarted ambitions and broken dreams. But only here can he become a writer again . . . The Enigma of the Return lives where fiction, poetry and autobiography meet. These creative tensions sustain a narrative of astonishing beauty, clarity and insight. "Looks set to become one of the great poetic statements of homesickness and return . . . It should be read by all exiles everywhere" Ian Thomson, Independent "A poetic, melancholic tour de force . . . a compelling, intense, stark and poignant exploration of living life as an outsider . . . The great Haitian novel" Jo Lateu, New Internationalist
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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. -- Ian Thomson * 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. * Financial Times * 'Moves fluidly between free verse and prose' Guardian. * Guardian * 'A poetic, melancholic tour de force ... a compelling, intense, stark and poignant exploration of living life as an outsider ... 'the great Haitian novel'' New Internationalist magazine. * New Internationalist magazine * 'In an age of great post-colonial migrations, this is a magnificent book' Grgoire Lemnager, Nouvel Observateur. * Nouvel Observateur * 'A richly haunting novel, with prose melting into poetry' Quentin Mills-Fenn, Uptown. * Uptown * 'A tour de force of partial autobiography' GQ magazine. * GQ magazine *

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Dany Laferrire is a francophone Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Petit Gove, Laferrire worked as a journalist in Haiti before moving to Canada in 1976.

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