Haiti noir
By: edited by Edwidge Danticat
Series: Akashic noir series
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781617750137; 9781936070657
Subjects: French Detective and mystery stories; Detective and mystery stories; Noir fiction; Haitian Short stories; Translations into English; Fiction
Description: A collection of crime and noir stories set in Haiti.
Notes: The writers ... here are part of the fluorishing contemporary scene in Haitian literature, both in Haiti and in the Haitian diaspora ... with two Haitiphile blan"--P. 14.

Some stories translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Which noir?:; title: Odette  -- Patrick Sylvain.; title: The rainbow's end  -- M.J. Fievre.; title: The finger  -- Gary Victor.; title: Paradise Inn  -- Kettly Mars.; title: Which one?  -- Evelyne Trouillot.; title: Twenty dollars  -- Madison Smartt Bell; title: Noir crossroads:; title: Claire of the sea light  -- Edwidge Danticat.; title: The harem  -- Ibi Aanu Zoboi.; title: Rosanna  -- Josaphat-Robert Large.; title: Maloulou  -- Marie Lily Cerat.; title: Dangerous crossroads  -- Louis-Philippe Dalembert.; title: Blues for Irène  -- Marvin Victor; title: Who is that noir?:; title: The last department  -- Katia D. Ulysse.; title: Departure lounge  -- Nadine Pinede.; title: Who is that man?  -- Yanick Lahens.; title: Mercy at the gate  -- Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel.; title: The leopard of Ti Morne  -- Mark Kurlansky.; title: The blue hill -- Rodney Saint-Éloi.