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A Different Hurricane
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CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781459754065
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Will their lifelong secret love outlast their insular, homophobic island’s rancour?Gordon and Allan, boys from a peasant background, grow up in neighbouring villages in tiny, violently homophobic...
Cruel Destiny and The White Negress
Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin
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CA$35.95
ISBN: 9781978837584
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Cruel Destiny (Cruelle Destinée) and The White Negress (La Blanche Négresse) are the first and second novels published by a Haitian woman, Cléante Valcin. Translated to English now for the first time by Jeanne Jégousso, these novels offer an incisive perspective on the fate, romance, and reversals of characters in Haiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, during the 1920s and 1930s.
The Last of the African Kings
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780813951812
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
The Last of the African Kings follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. It begins with the regal Béhanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and was exiled to distant Martinique....
Popa Singer
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780813951430
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
The latest novel by one of Haiti's most brilliant writers The most recent book by the renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet René Depestre, Popa Singer is a semiautobiographical chronicle of...
Naniki
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CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459751491
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Through luminescent light, ancestral paths, and a Caribbean spirit-inflected world, Naniki explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea...
By Such a Parting Light
A Novel
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766409388
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Disaster catapults three children into the care of their Caribbean grandparents, before another relative, elusive and perhaps unstable, makes a conflicting claim to guardianship. Balancing domestic calamity...
Suite as Sugar
and Other Stories
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CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459750715
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, in settings where the veil between the living and the dead is obscured.
Gods of Bruising
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CA$20.95
ISBN: 9789766409173
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
What they have left are the shoes, the suits and the photos. Now Dominic pushes to keep promises made to his father. His sister, Diallo, grapples to reconcile memories and recall her mother’s ways....
The Polished Hoe
20th Anniversary Edition
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CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781459750975
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
This is a literary masterpiece that evokes the sensuality of the tropics and the tragic richness of Island culture.
A Knife in the Sky
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339186
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student?s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti?s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty?s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.
Originally published by les éditions du remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, this book, like most of the author?s oeuvre, is preoccupied with colonial imposition. Marie-Célie Agnant writes on the ruthlessness of a dictatorship, on humanity, and locates the strength and power of resistance in women.
Shabine and Other Stories
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9789766409050
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
In this impressive first collection of short stories, Hazel Simmons-McDonald presents a deft exploration of class, of how values are shaped by religion, and of the tensions that undergird family life....
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Stoke Newington Edition
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CA$79.00
ISBN: 9781684483259
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe-presented here independent of its famous predecessor, The Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe-is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other.
Two Women
A Novel
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781684483150
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The first openly feminist novel published in Spanish, Two Women tells the riveting tale of a tumultuous love triangle among a brilliant, young, widowed countess, her inexperienced lover, and his pure and virtuous wife. This first English translation captures the lyrical romanticism of the novel's prose and includes a scholarly introduction to the author and her work.
One Thousand Eyes
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766408206
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
In One Thousand Eyes, a ragged troop of abandoned children fights to survive on a devastated Caribbean island. Eleven-year-old Myche marshals them out of the small sanctuary that is no longer safe,...
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Stoke Newington Edition
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CA$72.00
ISBN: 9781684480968
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Robinson Crusoe has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it.
Sab and Autobiography
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780292704428
Pub Date: March 1993
Imprint: University of Texas Press
A controversial 19th-century Cuban novel about the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter, together with a novella about an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions on her gender.
A Different Hurricane
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781459754065
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Cruel Destiny and The White Negress
Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin
CA$35.95
ISBN: 9781978837584
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The Last of the African Kings
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780813951812
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Popa Singer
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780813951430
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Naniki
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459751491
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
By Such a Parting Light
A Novel
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766409388
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Suite as Sugar
and Other Stories
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459750715
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Gods of Bruising
CA$20.95
ISBN: 9789766409173
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
The Polished Hoe
20th Anniversary Edition
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781459750975
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A Knife in the Sky
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339186
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student?s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti?s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty?s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.
Originally published by les éditions du remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, this book, like most of the author?s oeuvre, is preoccupied with colonial imposition. Marie-Célie Agnant writes on the ruthlessness of a dictatorship, on humanity, and locates the strength and power of resistance in women.
Shabine and Other Stories
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9789766409050
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Stoke Newington Edition
CA$79.00
ISBN: 9781684483259
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Two Women
A Novel
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781684483150
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
One Thousand Eyes
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9789766408206
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Stoke Newington Edition
CA$72.00
ISBN: 9781684480968
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Sab and Autobiography
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780292704428
Pub Date: March 1993
Imprint: University of Texas Press