Haiti Noir, Edwidge Danticat
Haiti Noir, Edwidge Danticat
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Haiti Noir

Author: Edwidge Danticat

Narrator: Robin Miles, Peter Jay Fernandez, Rachel Leslie

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/16/2011


Synopsis

Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat edits this collection of stories that puts a noir twist on the Haitian experience. From kidnappings gone wrong to deadly sibling rivalries, Haiti Noir features some of the Caribbean nation's leading voices, including Gary Victor, Evelyne Trouillot, Kettly Mars, and Patrick Sylvain. "This anthology will give American readers a complex and nuanced portrait of the real Haiti not seen on the evening news and introduce them to some original and wonderful writers."-Library Journal

About Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat was nominated for the National Book Award in 1995 for her story collection, Krik? Krak! Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published to acclaim when she was twenty-five.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on April 10, 2022

This collection of short stories was published at the time of the 2010 Haiti earthquake & the opening story is set during this terrible event. This opening story & a few of the others are excellent, but most of the tales here are a mixed bag of quality. I expected more from this collection, but at le......more

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz on July 29, 2020

I had read Haiti Noir 2 and I eagerly wanted to read the first one and I am happy I got my hands on this. Shout out to the National Library and Trinidad and Tobago for having this on the help. Haiti Noir is edited by none other by the great Haitian author Edwidge Danticat and features stories from......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 04, 2011

This is the first book in the "Noir" series by Akashic Books that I have read. I was interested for the obvious reason - the Earthquake that devastated the country. What would the stories coming out of this country be like? As a bonus, Edwidge Danticat was involved in this collection of stories; so,......more

Goodreads review by Mike on March 27, 2021

I'm not gonna lie, I had to look up what noir even meant. For those ignorant hillbillies like myself, noir is a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity. However, according the intro to the book, noir is also the French word for black, and Haiti became......more

Goodreads review by Kassel on June 15, 2011

Well-written and jarring. I won't read noir anymore because it's not my thing and creeps me out too much, but I certainly learned more about Haitian culture than my parents even told me about. It's going to spark some interesting conversation between me and my mother.......more