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The return
Record details
- ISBN: 9781553658085 (trade pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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227 p. ; 22 cm. - Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Douglas & McIntyre, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Copyright 2009 Dany Laferrière and Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle"--T.p. verso. |
| Awards Note: | Winner, Prix Médicis and the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. |
Search for related items by subject
| Genre: | Novels in verse. Autobiographical fiction. Prose literature. Black fiction. Canadian fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | Laf (Text) | 35151000298794 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
At age 23, the narrator, Dany, hurriedly left behind the stifling heat of Port-au-Prince for the unending winter of Montreal. It was 1976, and Baby Doc Duvalier<U+2019>s regime had just killed one of his journalist colleagues. Thirty-three years later, a telephone call informs Dany of his father<U+2019>s death in New York. Windsor Laferrière had fled Haiti in the 1960s, fearing persecution for his political activities. After the funeral, Dany plans to return his father to Baradères, the village in Haiti where he was born. It is not the body he will take, but the spirit. How does one return from exile? In acutely observed details, Dany reveals his affection for his father and for the land of his birth.
