The Infamous Rosalie

Évelyne Trouillot

University Of Nebraska Press

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 deftly plotted psychological drama in which the two women in turn relive their radically contrasting accounts of the dictator’s regime. Partly a retelling of Haiti’s nightmarish history under Duvalier, and partly an exploration of the power of memory, Trouillot’s novel takes a suspenseful turn when the aide contemplates murdering the old widow. Memory at Bay was praised by the Prix Carbet committee for the way it treats the enigmas of destiny and for a pairing of characters whose voices bring the narrative to the edge of the ineffable.
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Memory at Bay (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

Literature & Fiction

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University of Virginia Press

Désirée Congo (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

The newest English translation of one of Haiti's most powerful literary voices Désirée Congo is a riveting, powerful, and profoundly original novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. In this richly textured work, Trouillot--one of the leading voices of the francophone literary world--constructs an intricate narrative web from the varied experiences of freedmen and women, maroons, enslaved African people and their Creole children, as well as French planters and white smallholders in colonial Saint-Domingue at a historical moment of unthinkable upheaval. It is a moving, lyrical book whose strikingly realized characters enrich our understanding of the last confrontations between the Haitian revolutionaries and Napoleon's imperial forces--a conflict that resulted in the success of the largest slave revolt in recorded history and the independence of the first Black state in the western hemisphere.

United States

The newest English translation of one of Haiti's most powerful literary voices Désirée Congo is a riveting, powerful, and profoundly original novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. In this richly textured work, Trouillot--one of the leading voices of the francophone literary world--constructs an intricate narrative web from the varied experiences of freedmen and women, maroons, enslaved African people and their Creole children, as well as French planters and white smallholders in colonial Saint-Domingue at a historical moment of unthinkable upheaval. It is a moving, lyrical book whose strikingly realized characters enrich our understanding of the last confrontations between the Haitian revolutionaries and Napoleon's imperial forces--a conflict that resulted in the success of the largest slave revolt in recorded history and the independence of the first Black state in the western hemisphere.

Product Description Auteure de Rosalie l'infâme, roman phare sur la vie des hommes et femmes faits esclaves à Saint Domingue, Évelyne Trouillot offre un nouveau roman qui se passe Saint Domingue avant la dernière grande bataille contre l'armée de Napoléon. Dans Désirée Congo, Évelyne Trouillot donne vie à une jeune femme fantaisiste et attachante, aux actions singulières et excentriques. Autour d' elle, un groupe de personnages vivant chacun à sa manière cette période tumultueuse et décisive qui conduira a l'indépendance. About the Author Romancière, nouvelliste et poète, Évelyne Trouillot vit et travaille en Haïti. Elle a publie quatre recueils de nouvelles, six romans, quatre recueils de poésie, un essai sur l' enfance et l' état de droit en Haïti, et des récits jeunesse.

Désirée Congo (French Edition)

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The Infamous Rosalie

Memory at Bay (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

Memory at Bay (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

Désirée Congo (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

Désirée Congo (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)

Désirée Congo (French Edition)