The Rainy Season: Haiti—Then and NowConsidered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake. Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the fall of Haiti’s President-for-Life, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Wilentz captures a country electric with the expectation of change: markets that bustle by day explode with gunfire at night; outlaws control country roads; farmers struggle to survive in a barren land; and belief in voodoo and the spirits of the ancestors remains as strong as ever. The Rainy Season demystifies Haiti—a country and a people in cruel and capricious times. From the rebel priest Father Aristide and the street boys under his protection to the military strongmen who pass through the revolving door of power into the gleaming white presidential palace—and the buzzing international press corps members who jet in for a coup and leave the minute it’s over—Wilentz’s Haiti haunts the imagination. |
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Haiti—Then and Now Amy Wilentz. earthquake of this size seems fraught with fate. All the splendor of Haitian history and its raw indecency, too; all the lacy beauty of Haitian architecture and its deadly brutalist creations, too; all the ...
Haiti—Then and Now Amy Wilentz. earthquake of this size seems fraught with fate. All the splendor of Haitian history and its raw indecency, too; all the lacy beauty of Haitian architecture and its deadly brutalist creations, too; all the ...
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... Haiti, today, even though he's not in Haiti), and that was the beginning of my disillusionment. Unless you were a suck-up or a fool, it was impossible to be undeviatingly admiring of someone in the Haitian National Palace. Even for a ...
... Haiti, today, even though he's not in Haiti), and that was the beginning of my disillusionment. Unless you were a suck-up or a fool, it was impossible to be undeviatingly admiring of someone in the Haitian National Palace. Even for a ...
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... Haitian . In the middle of all this , we are ready . " Jean - Robert and I both know too much about Haitian history to take his ranting at face value . We know he's joking , but at the same time , he's not joking . Tou sa ou we , se pa ...
... Haitian . In the middle of all this , we are ready . " Jean - Robert and I both know too much about Haitian history to take his ranting at face value . We know he's joking , but at the same time , he's not joking . Tou sa ou we , se pa ...
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... Haitian , his attitudes are Haitian . He smokes cigarettes like a Haitian ( or a Frenchman ) . He taught me everything I knew about Haiti after I first arrived or at any rate , he made me understand what I was seeing . Tou sa ou we , se ...
... Haitian , his attitudes are Haitian . He smokes cigarettes like a Haitian ( or a Frenchman ) . He taught me everything I knew about Haiti after I first arrived or at any rate , he made me understand what I was seeing . Tou sa ou we , se ...
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... Haiti's special envoy to the United Nations , says , and McCalla's been watching Haiti for more than three decades ( he's Haitian - born ) : you Unfortunately , for Haiti to go forward need a functioning state , strapped with a modern ...
... Haiti's special envoy to the United Nations , says , and McCalla's been watching Haiti for more than three decades ( he's Haitian - born ) : you Unfortunately , for Haiti to go forward need a functioning state , strapped with a modern ...
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