| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) : map |
| Series |
Akashic noir series |
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Akashic noir series.
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| Contents |
Part I: Hunted/haunted: Praisesong for Port-au-Prince / Danielle Legros Georges. Preface to the life of a bureaucrat / Jacques Roumain. A strange story / Ida Faubert. The enchanted second lieutenant / Jacques-Stephen Alexis. A white house with pink curtains in the downstairs windows / Jan J. Dominique. Oresca / Paulette Poujol Oriol. Children of heroes (excerpt) / Lyonel Trouillot. -- Part II: Seduced: Remember one day / Emmelie Prophète. Rêve Haitien / Ben Fountain. Heading south / Dany Laferrière. Three letters you will never read / Georges Anglade. The Port-au-Prince marriage special / Edwidge Danticat. True life / Michèe Voltaire Marcelin -- Part III: Losing my way: I just lost my way / Èzili Dantò. The mission / Mari-Hélène Laforest. Barbancourt blues (excerpt) / Nick Stone. Dame Marie / Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell. Surrender (excerpt) / Myriam J.A. Chancy. Things I know about fairy tales / Roxane Gay |
| Summary |
A collection of crime and noir stories set in Haiti |
| Notes |
Some stories translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Short stories, Haitian.
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Short stories, Haitian -- Translations into English
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Short stories, Haitian.
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| SUBJECT |
Haiti -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Haiti.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Translations.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781617752049 |
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1617752045 |
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