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Street of Lost Footsteps
Book Details
Author(s)Trouillot, Lyonel
PublisherBison Books
ISBN / ASIN0803294506
ISBN-139780803294509
AvailabilityIn stock. Usually ships within 4 to 5 days.
Sales Rank2,247,849
CategoryLiterary Criticism
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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 inform's 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











