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The Comedians

The Comedians
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt ‘Papa Doc’ and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man...

The Dew Breaker

The Dew Breaker
  • Author(s): Edwidge Danticat
  • Location(s): Haiti, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s / contemporary

From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie...

The Year I Flew Away

The Year I Flew Away
  • Author(s): Marie Arnold
  • Location(s): Haiti, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1985

In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American — but will...

Waiting for the Waters to Rise

Waiting for the Waters to Rise
  • Author(s): Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox (translator)
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anaïs comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family. In May 2020, we published The Wondrous and Tragic...

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