Description |
1 online resource (320 pages). |
Series |
Akashic noir series
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Note |
Print version record. |
Summary |
Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Classic stories by: Danielle Legros Georges, Jacques Roumain, Ida Faubert, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, Jan J. Dominique, Paulette Poujol Oriol, Lyonel Trouillot, Emmelie Proph?te, Ben Fountain, Dany Laferri?re, Georges Anglade, Edwidge Danticat, Mich?le Voltaire Marcelin,?zili Dant?, Marie-H?l?ne Laforest, Nick Stone, Maril?ne Phipps-Kettlewell, Myriam J.A. Chancy, and Roxane Gay. The original best-selling Haiti Noir comprised all new stories by today's best Haitian authors. This new volume collects the true classics of Haitian literature--both short stories and excerpts from longer works--and will be an integral piece to the understanding of how Haitian culture has evolved over the past fifty years. Editor Edwidge Danticat, one of the most respected Haitian writers, has a well-deserved sterling reputation, and here she follows on the success of the original first volume. The standard e-book versions of this e-pub include excertps from the original Haiti Noir, including Edwidge Danticat's introduction and a story by Katia D. Ulysses. |
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Noir fiction French -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, Haitian -- Translations into English.
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Detective and mystery stories, French -- Translations into English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Haiti noir 2 1617751936 (OCoLC)863670378 |
ISBN |
9781617752049 (electronic bk.) |
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1617752045 (electronic bk.) |
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