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Memory at Bay
Évelyne Trouillot
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Description for Memory at Bay
hardcover. "Originally published in French as La maemoire aux abois (c) Editions Hoebeke, 2010" -- Verso title page. Translator(s): Daw, Paul Curtis. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 825.
Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet--an award won by such distinguished authors as Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphaël Confiant-- Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haiti’s most vital authors, Évelyne Trouillot.
Trouillot introduces us to a bedridden widow of a notorious dictator (in effect, a portrait of Papa Doc Duvalier) and the young émigré who attends to her needs but who harbors a secret--the bitter loss she feels for her mother, a victim of the dictator’s atrocities. The story that unfolds is a ... Read more
Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet--an award won by such distinguished authors as Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphaël Confiant-- Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haiti’s most vital authors, Évelyne Trouillot.
Trouillot introduces us to a bedridden widow of a notorious dictator (in effect, a portrait of Papa Doc Duvalier) and the young émigré who attends to her needs but who harbors a secret--the bitter loss she feels for her mother, a victim of the dictator’s atrocities. The story that unfolds is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938080
SKU
V9780813938080
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About Évelyne Trouillot
Évelyne Trouillot is a versatile author who has published novels, plays, poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction and whose work has been translated into several languages. In addition to the prize-winning Memory at Bay, her novels include The Infamous Rosalie, which won the Prix de la romancière francophone du Club Soroptimist de Grenoble. She is a lecturer in French at the ... Read more
Reviews for Memory at Bay
“One of the first things I was told in Haiti is that all families have at least one member in the army, at least one member in the Macoutes, and at least one member killed by the army or the Macoutes. Memory at Bay is a distressingly beautiful evocation of this eerie symbiosis between oppressor and victim, by one of ... Read more