Street of lost footsteps = Rue des pas perdus / Lyonel Trouillot ; translated & with an introduction by Linda Coverdale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trouillot, Lyonel.

Contributor:

Coverdale, Linda.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Rue des pas perdus. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Haiti--Port-au-Prince--Fiction.

Political violence.

Haiti--Fiction.

Haiti.

Haiti--Port-au-Prince.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 115 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Rue des pas perdus

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]

Summary:

Lyonel Trouillot's harrowing novel depicts a night of blazing violence in modern-day Port-au-Prince and recalls hundreds of years of violence stretching back even before the birth of Haiti in the fires of revolution. Three narrators -- a madam, a taxi driver, and a post office employee -- describe in almost hallucinatory terms the escalating chaos of a bloody uprising that pits the partisans of the Prophet against the murderous might of the great dictator Deceased Forever-Immortal.

The drama of promise and betrayal in Haitian life informs Street of Lost Footsteps with the grim irony and savage tenderness characteristic of writers for whom the repetitiveness of history has gone beyond tragedy, through farce, and on into insanity. With impressive originality and touching immediacy, Trouillot explores the nature of political oppression, memory, and truth.

Contents:

Street of Lost Footsteps 1.

ISBN:

0803244436

0803294506

OCLC:

51755894