A Drifting Year finds Haitian expatriate Laferrière plagued by his recollections. In this short novel written in stanzas, the young exile arrives in the unfamiliar city of Montreal. Here, he quickly discovers all the things endemic to the Canadian immigrant experience; racism, poverty, and disorientation plague the budding writer. Here is an author at his best when fiction and memoir exploit each other. The dreamscape at the end of the longer novel easily eclipses the cold streets of Montreal and the stinking slums of Port-au-Prince. If A Drifting Year is explorato.
"Un jeune homme arrive dans une ville du Nord pour une nouvelle vie. Ses origines, au Sud, ne l'ont pas habitué à la solitude, aux saisons contrastées. Si L'énigme du retour (prix Médicis 2009) était le roman du retour à Port-au-Prince de Dany Laferrière, celui-ci fait le récit de son arrivée à Montréal, à l'âge de 23 ans.--[Memento]."
"A Drifting Year finds Haitian expatriate Laferrière plagued by his recollections. In this short novel written in stanzas, the young exile arrives in the unfamiliar city of Montreal. Here, he quickly discovers all the things endemic to the Canadian immigrant experience; racism, poverty, and disorientation plague the budding writer. Here is an author at his best when fiction and memoir exploit each other. The dreamscape at the end of the longer novel easily eclipses the cold streets of Montreal and the stinking slums of Port-au-Prince. If A Drifting Year is explorato."@en
"Een jongeman uit Haïti zoekt zijn weg in de grote Canadese stad Montréal."
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Haïtiens Québec (Province) Montréal Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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