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Savage seasons
- Title
- Savage seasons / Kettly Mars ; translated by Jeanine Herman ; afterword by Madison Smartt Bell.
- Author
- Mars, Kettly
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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- Description
- 247 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Port-au-Prince, the 1960s Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visits Raoul Vincent, secretary of state at the Office of Public Safety. This fearsome head of the secret police is instantly smitten, and to ensure her husband's survival and protect her family, Nirvah submits to the official's desires. Becoming the mistress of a strongman in the regime is not without its benefits. Still, she has to endure her neighbors' inquisitive looks and the silent questions of her own children. Kettly Mars's Savage Seasons describes a pivotal and painful period in Haitian history by weaving together two stories: the personal story of Nirvah and her family and the universal story of Duvalier's dictatorial regime and its abuses"--
- "Savage Seasons recounts a woman's efforts to free her husband, a journalist arrested by the brutal regime of the Haitian government in the 1960s"--
- Series Statement
- French Voices
- Uniform Title
- Saisons sauvages. English
- Alternative Title
- Saisons sauvages.
- Subjects
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Awards (note)
- Winner of the French Voices Award
- Call Number
- Sc D 15-1455
- ISBN
- 9780803271487
- 0803271484
- LCCN
- 2014047484
- OCLC
- 894747642
- Author
- Mars, Kettly, author.
- Title
- Savage seasons / Kettly Mars ; translated by Jeanine Herman ; afterword by Madison Smartt Bell.
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- French Voices
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Awards
- Winner of the French Voices Award
- Added Author
- Herman, Jeanine, translator.Bell, Madison Smartt, writer of afterword.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 15-1455