Gorgé de désir et de sensualité, Je ne te trouverai pas deux fois dans ce même corps dit l'intimité deds corps qui s'abandonnent à la jouissance dans un Port-au-Prince paralysé par la révolte populaire et la violence des gangs. Zi -- jeune femme indépendante, galeriste, mère, amante -- tente de ne pas sombrer dans le chaos. Elle prend soin de ses jumeaux et de sa galerie d'art, s'engage dans les vents et marées de la guerre, de la vie, de l'amour.
Kettly Mars is a Haitian poet and novelist. She writes in French, and her books have been translated in English, Italian, Dutch, Danish, and Japanese.
Mars was born on September 3, 1958, in Port-au-Prince. She studied classical languages and worked the first twenty five years of her career as an office worker.
Since she was young she has been fascinated by poetry and around her age of thirty five years she began to write poems herself. Initially she wrote on the importance of love, the human body and sexuality in everyday life.
Her novels are situated in Haiti, although her themes are rather universal. She makes combinations between for instance gender, human race, social class, spirituality, power and violence. In 2003 her first novel appeared, called Kasalé; since then more novels followed. Her work is characterized by a vivid realistic reflection of the society.
Since about 2010 she works on an anthology on literature that was written in the 18th, 19th and 20th century by Haitian women.
J'ai beaucoup aimé, l'autrice a une plume divine, poétique et sans fla-fla à la fois. Le sujet et le contexte sont intrigants et originaux, on en apprend autant sur l'histoire d'Haïti et les injustices sociales qui donnent envies de crier, qu'on revisite les subtilités entre passion, bonheur et survivalisme. Chaque pays devrait avoir sa Kettly Mars. Un excellent livre si on a envie de goûter à quelque chose de nouveau, qui sort des sentiers battus.