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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Street of Lost Footsteps: Rue Des Pas-Perdus

Street of Lost Footsteps: Rue Des Pas-Perdus

Trouillot, Lyonel
Coverdale, Linda
Coverdale, Linda

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Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0803294506
ISBN13: 9780803294509
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Nov 1 2003
Pages: 115
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
Awards: Literary Award
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.

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