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Love, Anger, Madness

2010-03-30 Fiction
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Release : 2010-03-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 924/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Love, Anger, Madness by : Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Download or read book Love, Anger, Madness written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet. This book was released on 2010-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 incendiary that she was forced to flee to the United States. Yet Love, Anger, Madness endures. Claire, the narrator of Love, is the eldest of three daughters who surrenders her dreams of marriage to run the household after her parents die. Insecure about her dark skin, she fantasizes about her middle sister’s French husband, while he has an affair with the youngest sister, setting in motion a complicated family dynamic that echoes the growing chaos outside their home. In Anger, the police terrorize a middle-class family by threatening to seize their land. The father insinuates that their only hope of salvation lies with an unspeakable act—his daughter Rose must prostitute herself—which leads to all-consuming guilt, shame, and rage. And finally, Madness paints a terrifying portrait of a Haitian village that has been ravaged by militants. René, a young poet, is trapped in his family’s house for days with no food and becomes obsessed with the souls of the dead that surround him.

Rites of Love

2008 Nature
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Release : 2008
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 289/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Rites of Love by : Vladimir Megre

Download or read book Rites of Love written by Vladimir Megre. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 10 million copies sold in 20 languages

Everyday Madness

2018 Anger
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Release : 2018
Genre : Anger
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Book Rating : 302/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Everyday Madness by : Lisa Appignanesi

Download or read book Everyday Madness written by Lisa Appignanesi. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it every day.' After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and superstition in which sanity felt elusive. The dead of prior generations loomed large and haunting. Then, too, the cultural and political moment seemed to collude with her condition: everywhere people were dislocated and angry. In this electrifying and brave examination of an ordinary enough death and its aftermath, Appignanesi uses all her evocative and analytic powers to scrutinize her own and our society's experience of grieving, the effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our lives. With searing honesty, lashed by humour, she navigates us onto the terrain of childhood, the way it forms our feelings of love and hate, and steers us towards a less tumultuous version of the everyday. This book may be short, but life, death, madness, love, and grandchildren, are all there - seen through the eyes of a writer who is ever aware of the historical and current vagaries of woman's condition.

Masters of the Dew

1978 Africa
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Release : 1978
Genre : Africa
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Book Rating : 459/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Masters of the Dew by : Jacques Roumain

Download or read book Masters of the Dew written by Jacques Roumain. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.

Dance on the Volcano

2017-01-10 Fiction
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Release : 2017-01-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 588/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dance on the Volcano by : Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Download or read book Dance on the Volcano written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet. This book was released on 2017-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution 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 of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover.

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