Haiti noir 2
Subtitle: the classics
By: edited by Edwidge Danticat
Series: Akashic noir series; Akashic noir series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781617751936
Subjects: Haitian Short stories; Translations into English; Fiction
Description: A collection of crime and noir stories set in Haiti.
Notes: Some stories translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Hunted/haunted:; title: Praisesong for Port-au-Prince  -- Danielle Legros Georges.; title: Preface to the life of a bureaucrat  -- Jacques Roumain.; title: A strange story  -- Ida Faubert.; title: The enchanted second lieutenant  -- Jacques-Stephen Alexis.; title: A white house with pink curtains in the downstairs windows  -- Jan J. Dominique.; title: Oresca  -- Paulette Poujol Oriol.; title: Children of heroes (excerpt)  -- Lyonel Trouillot.; title: Part II: Seduced:; title: Remember one day  -- Emmelie Prophète.; title: Rêve Haitien  -- Ben Fountain.; title: Heading south  -- Dany Laferrière.; title: Three letters you will never read  -- Georges Anglade.; title: The Port-au-Prince marriage special  -- Edwidge Danticat.; title: True life  -- Michèe Voltaire Marcelin; title: Part III: Losing my way:; title: I just lost my way  -- Èzili Dantò.; title: The mission  -- Mari-Hélène Laforest.; title: Barbancourt blues (excerpt)  -- Nick Stone.; title: Dame Marie  -- Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell.; title: Surrender (excerpt)  -- Myriam J.A. Chancy.; title: Things I know about fairy tales -- Roxane Gay.