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The only English translation of “a masterpiece” ( The Nation )—a   stunning trilogy of novellas about   the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge Danticat Originally published in 1968 , Love, Anger, Madness  virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s repressive rule, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s writing was so powerful and so incendiary that she was forced to flee to the United States. Yet  Love, Anger, Madness  endures. Claire, the narrator of  Love ,  is the eldest of three daughters who surrenders her dreams of marriage to run the household after her parents die. Insecure about her dark skin, she fantasizes about her middle sister’s French husband, while he has an affair with the youngest sister, setting in motion a complicated family dynamic that echoes the growing chaos outside their home. In  Anger ,  the police terrorize a middle-class family by threatening to seize their land. The father insinuates that their only hope of salvation lies with an unspeakable act—his daughter Rose must prostitute herself—which lead

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Author

Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679643517

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.92 / 5 (229 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13