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Jacaranda eBook Series

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  • Hadriana in All My Dreams

    by René Depestre ...
    Translated by Kaiama L. Glover ...
    Series series Jacaranda
    Set during Carnival in Haiti 1938, a young and beautiful woman named Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion on her wedding day and collapses at the altar. She is buried and later resurrected by an evil sorcerer and, as a zombie, enters the collective memory of her town of Jacmel. Hadriana's conversion serves as the inciting incident into an exploration of the strange and esoteric on the island, where ... Read more

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  • Tropic of Cancer

    by Henry Miller ...
    Henry Miller's famously banned book is "a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one's dreary life and following your heart to Paris" (Richard Price).Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Serpent and the Rainbow

    by Wade Davis ...
    A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, ... Read more

    17,18 €

  • The Longest Year

    by Daniel Grenier ...
    Translated by Pablo Strauss ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” meets Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in Daniel Grenier’s epic novel, which tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, ... Read more

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  • The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction

    Lambda Literary Award

    Edited by Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle ...
    A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes.We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the ... Read more

    6,35 €

  • Babayaga

    A Novel of Witches in Paris

    by Toby Barlow ...
    An American ad man in 1950s Paris accidentally wanders into international intrigue and an affair with a dangerous witch in this genre-bending novel—"Tolkien meets Graham Greene meets Anne Rice in this wild, surrealistic caper" ( New York )."Witty and charming and exceedingly light on its feet. Sharp Teeth got some people's attention; with aggressive marketing and word of... ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • The Enigma of the Return

    by Dany Laferrière ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    "An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial TimesWindsor Laferrière left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his father dies in New York, himself an exile for half a century, Windsor travels there to attend the funeral, and then back to Haiti to inform his mother of the death.In Haiti, Windsor is faced with the grim ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Haiti Noir

    Edited by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island," from a lineup of authors including two National Book Award finalists ( Kirkus Reviews)."The Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country's literature back into the world of English-speakers. Filled with delights and surprises, Haiti Noir, taken as a whole, provides a profound portrait of the country, from its crises to ... Read more

    Was 12,29 € Now 10,80 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love, Anger, Madness

    A Haitian Triptych

    by Marie Vieux-Chauvet ...
    Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Val Vinokur ...
    Series series Modern Library Torchbearers
    The only English translation of “a masterpiece” (The Nation)—a stunning trilogy of novellas about the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge DanticatOriginally published in 1968*, Love, Anger, Madness* virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of “Papa Doc” ... Read more

    10,38 €

  • The Demi-Monde: Summer

    Book III of The Demi-Monde

    by Rod Rees ...
    Series Book 3 - The Demi-Monde
    Welcome to the Demi-Monde: a computer-created steampunk horror-pit of a virtual world, ruled by history's choicest psychos!Eight thousand years ago the Deluge destroyed the empire of the Lilithi, setting the race of super-warriors known as the Grigori loose in the outside world. They have lain hidden until now when - thanks to the creation of the dystopian virtual reality that is the Demi-Monde - ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Victoire

    My Mother's Mother

    Translated by Richard Philcox ...
    by Maryse Condé ...
    From the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) and critically acclaimed author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel.Maryse Condé’s personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza ... Read more

    16,03 €

  • At the Full and Change of the Moon

    by Dionne Brand ...
    In 1824, on the island of Trinidad, Marie Ursule, queen of a secret society of militant slaves, plots a mass suicide—a quiet, passionate act of revolt. But she cannot bring herself to kill her small daughter, Bola, whom she smuggles away in the early dawn light. As Bola's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren spill out across the world to America, Canada and Europe, they find their ... Read more

    10,38 €