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The return

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    Running Time: 05:37 hrs
    Narrator: Laurie Torres
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2020
    Note: This book was recorded thanks to support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Laferrière, Dany
    Contributor: Homel, David
    Date:
    Created
    2011
    Summary:

    At the age of twenty-three, the narrator hurriedly packed his bags and left behind the stifling heat of Port-au-Prince for the unending winter of Montreal. It was 1976, and Baby Doc Duvalier's regime had just killed a journalist colleague. But thirty-three years later, after his father's death, he decides to return him to Baradères, the village where he was born. How does one return from exile? In Dany's case, he grounds himself in a hotel room in Port-au-Prince, afraid to see the city he has dreamed of in Montreal. Every time he ventures out of this safety zone, the past and present collide.

    Contents:
    • Part One: Slow Preparations for Departure; The Phone Call; On the Proper Use of Sleep; Exile; The Photo; The Right Moment; Time in Books; In a Café; Behind the Frosted Window; Night Train; A Poet Named Césaire; Manhattan in the Rain; A Little Room in Brooklyn; The Suitcase; Last Morning; Part Two: A Return; From the Hotel Balcony; The Human River; What Happened to the Birds?; Death Doesn't Exist Here; Life in the Neighborhood (Before and After); Drawing a Blank; Ghetto Uprising in the Bedroom; An Emerging Writer; City of Talk; My Mother's Song; Her Sadness Dances; A Social Problem.
    Genre:
    Canadian fiction, General fiction
    Subject(s): Häitiens | Qúebec (Province) | Romans
    Original Publisher: Vancouver, Toronto, Douglas & McIntyre, D & M Publishers Inc.
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781553658092, 1553658094
    Collection(s)/Series: Black Authors | Under-represented Voices Audiobook Project