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Popa Singer

Popa Singer

Depestre, René
Glover, Kaiama L.

Hardcover

Series: Caraf Books

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0813951429
ISBN13: 9780813951423
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Apr 26 2024
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The latest novel by one of Haiti's most brilliant writers

The most recent book by the renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet René Depestre, Popa Singer is a semiautobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule.

To celebrate her son's return home after years of exile, Dianira Fontoriol (aka Popa Singer)--an indomitable mother armed only with her sewing machine and her personal convictions--determines to resist in her own way the infamous Ubu King of the Tropics: François Papa Doc Duvalier. Depestre's novel tells the story of this at once intimate and epic struggle. Combining colorful fantasy and biting social satire, it is a deeply personal and singularly artistic take on an infamous chapter in Haitian history.

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