Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych
by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0812976924
- ISBN 13
- 9780812976922
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About This Item
Originally published in 1968, Love, Anger, Madness virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier's repressive rule, Marie Vieux-Chauvet's writing was so powerful and so incendiary that she was forced to flee to the United States. Yet Love, Anger, Madness endures.
Claire, the narrator of Love, is the eldest of three daughters who surrenders her dreams of marriage to run the household after her parents die. Insecure about her dark skin, she fantasizes about her middle sister's French husband, while he has an affair with the youngest sister, setting in motion a complicated family dynamic that echoes the growing chaos outside their home.
In Anger, the police terrorize a middle-class family by threatening to seize their land. The father insinuates that their only hope of salvation lies with an unspeakable act—his daughter Rose must prostitute herself—which leads to all-consuming guilt, shame, and rage.
And finally, Madness paints a terrifying portrait of a Haitian village that has been ravaged by militants. René, a young poet, is trapped in his family's house for days with no food and becomes obsessed with the souls of the dead that surround him.
Synopsis
Marie Vieux-Chauvet, a seminal writer of postoccupation Haiti, was born in Port-au-Prince in 1916 and died in New York in 1973. She is the author of five novels, including Dance on the Volcano, Fonds des Nègres, Fille d’Haiti, and Les Rapaces. Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur have translated two novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, Solibo Magnificent and Texaco , the latter of which won the American Translators Association Galantière Prize for Best Book. Their translation of Love, Anger, Madness was supported by a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is the author of B rother, I’m Dying; Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!; The Farming of Bones ; and The Dew Breaker. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 316162454
- Title
- Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych
- Author
- Marie Vieux-Chauvet
- Format/Binding
- Very good
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0812976924
- ISBN 13
- 9780812976922
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010-03-30