Street of Lost Footsteps: Rue Des Pas-Perdus

by Lyonel Trouillot

Book Overview

Lyonel Trouillot's harrowing novel depicts a night of blazing violence in modern-day Port-au-Prince and recalls hundreds of years of violence stretching back even before the birth of Haiti in the fires of revolution. Three narrators--a madam, a taxi driver, and a post office employee--describe in almost hallucinatory terms the escalating chaos of a bloody uprising that pits the partisans of the Prophet against the murderous might of the great dictator...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803294506
• ISBN13: 9780803294509
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.7"