by Lyonel Trouillot · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742735754
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«Les Enfants des héros» is the novel by Lyonel Trouillot, published by Actes Sud in paperback (135 pages, in French).
Colin and his sister Mariéla flee after killing their alcoholic and violent father. During three days of flight through the margins of a Haitian city, Colin recalls the neighborhood, the misery and the figure of Mariéla, and seeks a voice of his own that allows him to understand the crime and escape a destiny that seemed written.
The Haitian author Lyonel Trouillot, born in 1956, published this novel in 2002. The original text is in French.
For readers interested in Haitian narrative and contemporary Francophone literature.
Lyonel Trouillot is a novelist and poet in French and Haitian Creole, a journalist and a professor of French and Creole literature in Port-au-Prince.
