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  • Moonbath

    by Yanick Lahens ...
    Translated by Emily Gogolak ...
    The award-winning saga of a peasant family living in a small Haitian village, told through four generations of voices, recounting through stories of tradition and superstition, voodoo and the new gods, romance and violence, the lives of the women who struggled to hold the family together in an ever-shifting landscape of political turmoil and economic suffering. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sweet Undoings

    by Yanick Lahens ...
    Translated by Kaiama L. Glover ...
    Yanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings.In Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a "high-pitched sweetness", a sweetness that overwhelms Francis, a French journalist, one evening at the Corossol Restaurant-Bar, when the broken, rich voice of lounge singer Brune rises from the microphone.Brune's father, Judge ... Read more

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  • Haitian Literature: Urgency(ies) of Writing, Dream(s) of Inhabiting

    Inaugural Lecture delivered at the Collège de France on Thursday 21 March 2019

    by Yanick Lahens ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    « To speak of Haiti and its literature differently one needs to ask oneself, through the words of its writers, what light the Haitian experience can shed on the French-speaking world, and perhaps on the world at large, in this day and age: how a civilisation – and one of which literature would be a major element – was founded on the grounds of an almost unthinkable historical event, namely a ... Read more

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  • The Colour of Dawn

    by Yanick Lahens ...
    Series Book 0 - Seren Discoveries
    Port au Prince, Haiti. The police roam the streets and no-one is safe. Fignolé, musician and political radical is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colour, bustle, deprivation and political tension of the city. Everntually they will find him, but in the process they will also have found more about themselves than they wanted to know. One day and ... Read more

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    Edited by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island," from a lineup of authors including two National Book Award finalists ( Kirkus Reviews)."The Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country's literature back into the world of English-speakers. Filled with delights and surprises, Haiti Noir, taken as a whole, provides a profound portrait of the country, from its crises to ... Read more

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  • Crossing the Mangrove

    by Maryse Conde ...
    In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au Sel, a small village in Guadeloupe. None of the villagers are particularly surprised, since Sancher, a ... Read more

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  • Haiti Noir 2

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    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Stories of crime and corruption set in this Caribbean country by Edwidge Danticat, Roxane Gay, Dany Laferrière, and more.These darkly suspenseful stories offer a deeper and more nuanced look at a nation that has been plagued by poverty, political upheaval, and natural disaster, yet endures even through the bleakest times. Filled with tough characters and twisting plots, they reveal the multitude ... Read more

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  • Return to my Native Land

    by Aime Cesaire ...
    Translated by John Berger, Anna Bostock ...
    A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.More praise:"The ... Read more

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  • The Salt Roads

    by Nalo Hopkinson ...
    From the S FWA Grand Master, a "sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic . . . tour de force" that blends fantasy, women's history, and slavery ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. Led by a lesbian healer and... ... Read more

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  • The Blood Promise

    A Hugo Marston Novel

    by Mark Pryor ...
    Series series Hugo Marston
    Hugo Marston must figure out what lies hidden inside an old sailor's chest before a 200-year-old blood promise is revealed and claims another life. In post-Revolution Paris, an old man signs a letter in blood, then hides it in a secret compartment in a sailor's chest. A messenger arrives to transport the chest and its hidden contents, but then the plague strikes and an untimely death changes ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Pure

    From the Booker shortlisted author of The Land in Winter

    by Andrew Miller ...
    ⭐ Out now: The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ⭐ Pure: an enthralling tale of an extraordinary year in pre-revolutionary Paris Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award'Irresistibly compelling' Sunday Telegraph'Dazzling' Guardian'A work of beauty' The TimesDeep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    by Wes Anderson ...
    The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Acting as a kind of father-figure, M. Gustave leads the resourceful Zero on a journey that involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; the ... Read more

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