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<p>Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship. The journey proved to be a turning point in his life. Fifty years later, his attachment to the tiny Caribbean nation -- his second home -- remains as passionate and powerful as ever. Now, in Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earth, he explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, violent land.<p> "Beautiful... bizarre... dangerous... exotic, a Garden of Eden fallen into despair, a tiny nation of unimaginable misery and unpredictable grace, an island where life is a kind of literature, a world of "unlimited impossibility." This is Herbert Gold's Haiti, a country of extraordinary paradox and remarkable extremes -- of gingerbread dream houses and wretched slums, of brutal repression and explosive creative energy. Where else, he asks, can you run into evil spirits on the back roads, or find the goddess of fertility and orgasm represented by a photo of a tap-dancing Shirley Temple? Where else is there such generosity amid such corruption, such humor in the midst of such desperation?<p> In his many Haitian travels, Gold has dined with Graham Greene and chatted with t

Author

Gold, Herbert, 1924-; Gold, Herbert, 1924- Best nightmare on Earth

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781412824941

Subjects

Travel, History, Political Science

Rating

3.78 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14