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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 thirty-three 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 émigré for the fifty 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...
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Recensione
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' Grégoire Leménager, 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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A novel of exile and return evoking the hardship and the magic of life in Haiti.
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