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2004., VLB Call No: FR Fic Laf Edition: Nouv. éd. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Roman
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2010., Douglas & McIntyre Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Racial and sexual politics collide in this cult classic that launched Laferrière as one of North America's finest literary provocateurs.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 1985. With raunchy humor and a working-class intellectualism, Laferrière's narrator wanders the slums of Montreal, has sex with white women, and writes a book to save his life.
![How to make love to a negro without getting tired [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT80258.JPG "How to make love to a negro without getting tired [eBook]")
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2010., Adult, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: BLK Fic Laf Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book : I am a Japanese writer. For the writer, though, the title isn't just a title: he really does believe he is a Japanese writer. He makes this declaration in a mall, and, the next thing he knows, he's an international celebrity. But things go quickly wrong.
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2011., General, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: QWF BLK Fic Laf Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At age 23, the narrator, Dany, hurriedly 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 one of his journalist colleagues. Thirty-three years later, a telephone call informs Dany of his father's death in New York. Windsor Laferrière had fled Haiti in the 1960s, fearing persecution for his political activities. After the funeral, Dany plans to return his father to Baradères, the village in Haiti where he was born. It is not the body he will take, but the spirit. How does one return from exile? In acutely observed details, Dany reveals his affection for his father and for the land of his birth.
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2012., General, Arsenal Pulp Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.This moving and revelatory book is an eyewitness account of the quake and its aftermath. In a series of vignettes, Laferrière reveals the shock, rage, and grief experienced by those around him, the acts of heroism he witnessed, and his own sense of survivor guilt. At one point, his nephew, astonished at still being alive, asks his uncle not to write about "this," "this" being too horrible to give up so easily to those who were not there. But as a writer, Laferrière can't make such a promise. Still, the question is raised: to whom does this disaster belong? Who gets to talk and write about it? In this way, this book is not only the chronicle of a natural disaster; it is also a personal meditation about the responsibility and power of the written word in a manner that echoes certain post-Holocaust books.
![The world is moving around me [eBook] : a memoir of the Haiti earthquake](/Library/images/~imageCT75944.JPG "The world is moving around me [eBook] : a memoir of the Haiti earthquake")