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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... elected , one reinstated - has collapsed . Its three preposterous domes are sunken and deflated . Indeed , it looks almost ridiculous in ruin , as if someone had suddenly sucked the air out of a fat and pompous politician in the midst ...
... elected , one reinstated - has collapsed . Its three preposterous domes are sunken and deflated . Indeed , it looks almost ridiculous in ruin , as if someone had suddenly sucked the air out of a fat and pompous politician in the midst ...
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... elections, gossip, sewing, cobbling, prayer, paintings, floods. Even news reporting. Even book writing. But history, politics, and even love and art seem quaint and tiny in the face of geological power. Great ideals like liberty and ...
... elections, gossip, sewing, cobbling, prayer, paintings, floods. Even news reporting. Even book writing. But history, politics, and even love and art seem quaint and tiny in the face of geological power. Great ideals like liberty and ...
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... elections drew near (the first having been attacked by Duvalierists and aborted), Aristide—who had always claimed such elections were an American imposition, and untrustworthy—toyed with the notion of running, and then, to my shock ...
... elections drew near (the first having been attacked by Duvalierists and aborted), Aristide—who had always claimed such elections were an American imposition, and untrustworthy—toyed with the notion of running, and then, to my shock ...
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... elections ; the Belgian priest who ran a radio station in the north until he was summarily fired by the Archbishop there ; Peter Welle , the CARE agroforester who was caught in the middle of the controversy over foreign aid ; the kind ...
... elections ; the Belgian priest who ran a radio station in the north until he was summarily fired by the Archbishop there ; Peter Welle , the CARE agroforester who was caught in the middle of the controversy over foreign aid ; the kind ...
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