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I had a hard time putting this book down. The main character gets a telephone call in Montreal, telling him that his estranged father has died in Brooklyn. Both father and son are from Haiti, both had fled, at different times the violence. The son returns to Haiti after being gone for 30 years.
I loved that this book was written in both verse and prose.
I loved that this book was written in both verse and prose.
Et l'exil du temps est plus impitoyable
que celui de l'espace.
Mon enfance
me manque plus cruellement
que mon pays
L'Énigme du retour, page 73 ...more
que celui de l'espace.
Mon enfance
me manque plus cruellement
que mon pays
L'Énigme du retour, page 73 ...more
