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  • Antoine of Gommiers

    by Lyonel Trouillot ...
    Translated by Nathan H Dize ...
    Who is Antoine of Gommiers? A prophet, seer, matchmaker, trickster, or huckster-- or does he even exist? In this satirical novel tinged with magical realism, Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot (Kannjawou) paints a richly textured portrait of life in his native country overseen by supernatural forces where the worlds of dream and reality co-exist. With alternating chapters that reveal the day to day ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emperor

    by Makenzy Orcel ...
    Translated by Nathan H. Dize ...
    Series series The French List
    A tragicomic novel that explores deep-seated tensions and social violence in Haiti.After committing an irreparable crime, the narrator of The Emperor waits in his bedroom for the police to arrest him. His past reverberates inside of him like a drum: his youth spent in captivity as a zonbi, under the control of a charlatan Vodou leader, and many an alienating dawn delivering the daily newspaper ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • I Am Alive

    by Kettly Mars, Professor Kaiama L. Glover, Ph.D ...
    Translated by Nathan H. Dize ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    I Am Alive (Je suis vivant) is celebrated Haitian author Kettly Mars’s latest novel, telling the story of a bourgeois Caribbean family as it wrestles with issues of mental illness, unconventional sexuality, and the difficulty of returning home and rediscovery following the devastating 2010 earthquake. Mars, herself a survivor of the disaster, has crafted a complex, at times disorienting, but ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Immortals

    by Makenzy Orcel ...
    Translated by Nathan H. Dize ...
    Series series SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
    Translation of the award-winning debut novel by Haitian writer Makenzy Orcel about the lives of prostitutes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid the 2010 earthquake.The Immortals is set in an infamous neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, on Grand-Rue, where many women, young and old, trade in flesh, sex, and desire. We learn, in glimpses and fragments, about the lives of women who fall in love with the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Writing through the Visual and Virtual

    Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean

    by Bojana Coulibaly, Rokhaya Fall Diawara, Khady Diène, Oumar Diogoye Diouf, Nathan H. Dize, Amanda Gilvin, Donna Gustafson, Phuong Hoang, Laurence Jay-Rayon, Abdoulaye Elimane Kane, Jean Hérald Legagneur, Anne Rehill, Edwige Sylvestre-Ceide, Jean-Baptiste Sourou, Meghan Tinsley, Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Gabrielle Civil, Barbara Cooper, Gladys M. Francis, Maha Gad El Hak, Boureima Alpha Gado, Fakhri Haghani, Julie Huntington, Anne Patricia Rice, Becky Schulthies ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors—whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance studies, philosophy, sociology, translation, and visual arts—examine the complex interplay ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • The Cracks in Our Armor

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    By the international bestselling author of Billie: These seven short stories exploring modern French life are "a raw and tender ode to the human spirit" ( Booklist).Critically acclaimed and beloved across Europe, Anna Gavalda's bestselling novels have been translated into numerous languages. In this collection of short stories, all written in the first person, Gavalda has crafted intimate and ... Read more

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  • A Paris Apartment

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    The New York Times Bestseller!Based on the fascinating true story of a treasure-stocked Parisian apartment opened for the first time in seventy years. Now with an excerpt of Michelle's novel, I'll See You in Paris!April Vogt, Sotheby's continental furniture specialist, is speechless when a Paris apartment shuttered for seventy years is discovered in the ninth arrondissement. Beneath the cobwebs ... Read more

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  • A Secret Kept

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    by Tatiana de Rosnay ...
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  • Inseparable

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    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    Translated by Sandra Smith ...
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    Love in a Second Language

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  • Light Years

    by James Salter ...
    Series series Vintage International
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