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Claire of the Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat · Center Point Pub; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones to have experienced loss. As the poor townspeople search by moonlight for the seven-year-old... |
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Dance on the Volcano
Marie Vieux-Chauvet · Archipelago Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book |
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Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people... |
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Ready to Burst
Franketienne · Archipelago
Format: Book |
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Ready to Burst follows the lives of two young men and their individual attempts to make sense of the deeply troubled society surrounding them. An informed critique of the “brain drain” prompted by the Duvalier dictatorship, Ready to Burst is, in Frankétienne’s... |
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An Untamed State
Roxane Gay · Grove
Pages: 370
Format: Paperback |
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"Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair. It is written at a pace that will match your racing heart, and while you find yourself shocked, amazed,... |
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Heading South
Dany Laferrie?re |
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On the sun-drenched island of Haiti in the 1970s, under the shadow of "Baby Doc" Duvalier's notorious regime, locals eke out an existence as servants, bartenders and panderers to the white elite. Fanfan, Charlie, and Legba, aware of the draw of their adolescent, black bo |
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Black Venus: A Novel
James MacManus · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover |
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A vivid novel of Charles Baudelaire and his lover Jeanne Duval, the Haitian cabaret singer who inspired his most famous and controversial poems, set in nineteenth-century Paris.For readers who have been drawn to The Paris Wife, Black Venus captures the artistic scene in the great French... |
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Haiti Noir
Edwidge Danticat · Akashic Books
Format: Hardcover |
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"A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island. […] The 36th entry in Akashic's Noir series (which ranges from Bronx to Delhi to Twin Cities) is beautifully edited, with a spectrum of voices."--Kirkus Reviews"Danticat has succeeded in assembling... |
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Crimson Angel: A Benjamin January historical mystery
Barbara Hambly · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Benjamin January is forced to travel to Haiti to seek his familys lost treasure, in order to save everything he holds dearWhen Jefferson Vitrack the white half-brother of Benjamin Januarys wife - turns up on Januarys doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts... |
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Murder in the Latin Quarter
Cara Black · Soho
Pages: 317
Format: Print book |
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"Yes, Cara Black fans, Aimée Leduc is back. This is the ninth of Black's novels about the chic, indomitable Parisian detective, and it has all the elements Black's readers have come to cherish: an engaging protagonist with a likable sidekick (her diminutive partner, René... |
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Mr. Clarinet
Nick Stone · Harper; First Edition edition
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover |
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Pied Piper, Soul Stealer, Serial Killer - Who is Mr. Clarinet? It was a job Miami private investigator Max Mingus found hard to refuse: $10 million to locate billionaire's son Charlie Carver - missing now for over three years. Young Charlie disappeared on the island of Haiti, where... |
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Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
Isabel Allende · Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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“Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.” — Los Angeles Times From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (Inés... |
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