Désirée Congo

by Evelyne Trouillot

Auteure de Rosalie l'infâme, roman phare sur la vie des hommes et femmes faits esclaves à Saint Domingue, Évelyne Trouillot offre un nouveau roman qui se passe Saint Domingue avant la dernière grande bataille contre l'armée de Napoléon. Dans Désirée Congo, Évelyne Trouillot donne vie à une jeune femme fantaisiste et attachante, aux actions singulières et excentriques. Autour d' elle, un groupe de personnages vivant chacun à sa manière cette période tumultueuse et décisive qui conduira a l'indépendance.

233 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Evelyne Trouillot was born, lives and works in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her first novel Rosalie l’infâme was awarded the Prix Soroptimist de la romancière francophone, in Grenoble, France in 2004. Evelyne Trouillot has published several more novels and three collections of short stories, two books of poems, one in Creole and one in French. She has also written an essay on the situation of children and human rights in Haiti Restituer l’enfance. Her first play Le bleu de l’île received the Prix Beaumarchais, ETC Caraibes in 2005. Her novel La mémoire aux abois, presents a compelling view of the dictatorship that Haiti suffered during the Duvalier era. It received the Prix Carbet de la Caraibe et du Tout Monde in 2010. Her latest novel Absences sans frontières tells the story of a family separated by migration, but strengthened by their love and respect for one another. In 2014, Trouillot published a book of poems in France, Par la fissure de mes mots. In 2015, her latest novel Le rond point was awarded la Bourse Barbancourt, in Haiti. La memoire aux abois was translated by Paul C Daw into English under the title Memory at Bay and published by University of Virginia Press in 2015.
Several short stories by Trouillot are available in English, such as http://wordswithoutborders.org/articl....
you can see Evelyne Trouillot interview about le rond point on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8zW...

You can read Edwidge Danticat's interview with the author at http://www.theroot.com/views/bomb-roo....

Reviews

[Myriam]

Un roman captivant sur l'indépendance d'Haïti et la lutte pour la liberté, avec une grande diversité de personnages attachants et pluridimensionnels, mettant en lumière les cruautés et complexités d'un pan de l'histoire qu'on devrait tous mieux connaître.

(Lu pour un mandat professionnel précis, d'où l'absence de note.)

[Purple Iris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would make a great movie!