Dany Laferriere

• Apr-1992
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• Nov-1993
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Laferriere's ( How to Make Love to a Negro ) beguiling and lyrical new novel traces the day-to-day activities of a 10-year-old boy during one summer in his Haitian village. The unnamed narrator says early on that ``nothing much happened that summer, ...

• Jan-1994
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It is the early 1970s in Haiti. A shy adolescent boy, raised in a devout family of women, gets mixed up in a misunderstanding at the Macaya Bar in Port-au-Prince's Zone Rouge. Terrified that he has become a target for the Tontons Macoutes - Duvalier'...

• Sep-2010
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On the sun-drenched island of Haiti in the 1970s, under the shadow of �"Baby Doc” Duvalier’s notorious regime, locals eke out an existence as servants, bartenders and panderers to the white elite. Fanfan, Charlie, and Legba, aware of the draw of ...

• Oct-2010
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Brilliant and tense, Dany Laferrière's first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in Canada in 1985. With ribald humor and a working-class intellectualism on par with...

• May-2011
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A devilishly intelligent new novel by the internationally bestselling author and Prix Médicis winnerA black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book I Am a Japanese Writer. His publisher loves it and gives him an advance. T...

• Oct-2014
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"An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial TimesWindsor Laferrière left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his father dies in New York, himself an exile for half a c...