![]() Yet Love, Anger, Madness endures.Ĭlaire, the narrator of Love , is the eldest of three daughters who surrenders her dreams of marriage to run the household after her parents die. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s repressive rule, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s writing was so powerful and so incendiary that she was forced to flee to the United States. ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1968, Love, Anger, Madness virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. 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 Danticat ![]()
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