Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... sometimes accounts for deceit and betrayal . An unworthy neighbor gets rich while the rats are eating your corn ? He's a loupgarou . The coffee speculator manages to buy your few handfuls for sixty cents ? Loupgarou at work . A thuggish ...
... sometimes accounts for deceit and betrayal . An unworthy neighbor gets rich while the rats are eating your corn ? He's a loupgarou . The coffee speculator manages to buy your few handfuls for sixty cents ? Loupgarou at work . A thuggish ...
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... sometimes came those more complex brags that dramatized and improved dusty reality . The brag uses delusion to sing that life is worth the trouble . Sometimes the poet heads for glory ; sometimes he is just a person who has saved his ...
... sometimes came those more complex brags that dramatized and improved dusty reality . The brag uses delusion to sing that life is worth the trouble . Sometimes the poet heads for glory ; sometimes he is just a person who has saved his ...
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... Sometimes he would wear a helmet , hold a gun , glower ; sometimes he would stutter in French , sometimes in Creole . Sometimes he practiced enigmatic retreats from public view . Early on , he was the repository of hope . People said he ...
... Sometimes he would wear a helmet , hold a gun , glower ; sometimes he would stutter in French , sometimes in Creole . Sometimes he practiced enigmatic retreats from public view . Early on , he was the repository of hope . People said he ...
Table des matières
Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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