Love, Anger, Madness - (Modern Library Torchbearers) by Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Available in English for the first time, Vieux-Chauvet's stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation, "Love, Anger, Madness" is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled Haiti.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The only English translation of "a masterpiece" (<i>The Nation</i>)--a</b> <b>stunning trilogy of novellas about</b> <b>the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge Danticat</b><br><b> </b><br>Originally published in 1968<i>, Love, Anger, Madness </i>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 <i>Love, Anger, Madness </i>endures. <p/>Claire, the narrator of <b><i>Love</i></b><i>, </i> 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. <p/>In <b><i>Anger</i></b><i>, </i> 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. <p/>And finally, <b><i>Madness</i></b> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>Dance on the Volcano, Fonds des Nègres, Fille d'Haiti, </i>and <i>Les Rapaces.</i> <p/>Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur have translated two novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, <i>Solibo Magnificent</i> and <i>Texaco</i>, the latter of which won the American Translators Association Galantière Prize for Best Book. Their translation of <b>Love, Anger, Madness</b> was supported by a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. <p/>Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is the author of B<b>rother, I'm Dying; Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!; The Farming of Bones</b>; and <b>The Dew Breaker.</b> She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters.
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