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    Haiti Noir
    Haiti Noir
    Haiti Noir
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    Haiti Noir

    Written by Edwidge Danticat

    Narrated by Robin Miles, Peter Jay Fernandez and Rachel Leslie

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    Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat edits this collection of stories that puts a noir twist on the Haitian experience. From kidnappings gone wrong to deadly sibling rivalries, Haiti Noir features some of the Caribbean nation's leading voices, including Gary Victor, Evelyne Trouillot, Kettly Mars, and Patrick Sylvain. "This anthology will give American readers a complex and nuanced portrait of the real Haiti not seen on the evening news and introduce them to some original and wonderful writers."-Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 16, 2011
    ISBN9781501984273
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    Edwidge Danticat

    Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and the novel-in-stories, The Dew Breaker. She is the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures, Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2, and Best American Essays 2011. She has written several books for young adults and children—Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, and Untwine—as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance, A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.

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    • 3/5
      David Martinez, fired with curiosity about his family and supported with an unexpected inheritance, travels to the Basque Country where he discovers romance, danger and follows an increasingly mysterious trail of clues. At the same time, a journalist, Simon Quinn, is investigating related murders that eventually draw him into the same circle of mysterious elements that David is tracking. There's plenty of suspense here, although many of the situations are implausible enough to make the reader say, "Aw, c'mon!" This is not a bad book and is often entertaining. I think my disappointment sprang principally from the fact that I am growing mortally tired of books about "ancient church mysteries."
    • 3/5
      While the travelling kept up a fast pace I didn't get a sense of place from anywhere mentioned. Some vague descriptions just whetted my appetite to read more about the regions. Amy, David and Simon really didn't come to life for me but the story kept me reading.It's a gruesome story and with not enough details left out sometimes and vaguely twitch-making pseudo eugenics science thrown in for good measure.It did keep my attention and David's mystery was what kept me reading but I think the author was trying too hard to impress.
    • 5/5
      I was concerned I wouldn't like this, I found Knox's first book very violent, to the point where it ruined the story. While this was still a little graphic I really liked it. The setting and the plot were both original and well written and researched,
    • 3/5
      while there was plenty of action I found the lead character David really whiny and annoying, I could see why Miguel would want to kill him.
    • 2/5
      So... Mr. Tom Knox (or whatever his real name is) should stop watching Indiana Jones and Lara Croft movies. You can't put your protagonist on the very verge of death 20 times and pull him out on the veeeeery last milisecond and make the story credible. Actually the story could be interesting if the poor reader didn't lose track so often, because the bad guy is about to kill the good guy (again, and again, and again). Just a thought Mr. Knox: what works in an movie may not work in a book.Also, use of plural languages is way out of range with this author. So, he has a basque person speaking English to an English speaker. The Basque person (even more, a proud ETA militant) in his rage starts to speak in.... Spanish?!?!?! Come on. This guy has only seen the Basque country from his hotel room. And that is not only true for the language usage, it's also true for the way in which he depicts them: basically as violent radicals or cowards. Nothing farther from reality.And staying with language, even his use of Spanish is really bad, mixing feminine articles with masculine nouns, for instance. I would also like to know why he used the Spanish words for things that have perfect equivalents in the English language (a "supermercado" is just a grocery store). If it's just to give local flavor he should look for things that are truly local.And then there are descriptions that just thow you off completely. At one point he describes a stone carving of a dragon with "feminine" claws. Really? Most of the stone used in the Basque country is granite, really hard stone, very difficult to work. It would be impossible to put claws on a carving of a Dragon; "feminine" claws, not even if you were working with sandstone.OK, I should stop my rant now. not because this guy deserves it, but because this is putting me in a dark mood.
    • 2/5
      The Marks of Cain was a little bit slow to start with, and left you wondering how and where the two strands of the story's plot would join together, because it was obvious that they would, somewhere along the line, and while it was an interesting and imaginitive use of some historical paradoxes and facts and things that shouldn't have happened but did, the story suffered from what I'm going to call the 24 syndrome.You know how, in the TV series 24 that Jack and co have a really bad, unrelenting day from start to finish? Well that's pretty much the life of the characters in this story. The enemy/antagonist just keeps on turning up, and they never get a moments peace. You know it's going to happen, and you just keep waiting for it to happen, but when it does it just makes you groan, because, please /no/ one individual has eyes that far and wide - I don't care /who/ he is or what organisations he has in his pocket. That for me was something that took away from the story.Unfortunately, too, the ending smacked a little of 'deux ex.' Either I /missed/ the clues as to what was going on all through the story, that led to this ending, or it was just an ending that came out of the blue, a plot device that existed only in the author's head/outline, and never in the text, and without reading it again, I couldn't tell you which - and as far as that goes, it was good to read the book once, but a second time might be pushing it.
    • 4/5
      This book entertained me, and had a lot going on. Pretty interesting.
      The ending seemed a bit underdeveloped and weak to me. The 'shocking reveal' of the story wasn't all that surprising.
    • 3/5
      Worth the read....but still, only a solid three. The writing has improved, but the idea or as I call it, the 'ah-ha' factor was a little underwhelming. At many points, the plot was unbelievable and insufferable. Not of the supernatural sorts, but the everyday reality sort. I feel this cheats the reader and is lazy of the writer. Not sure if it was deliberate laziness or lack of imagination.

      On the flip side, please don't misunderstand my review. Writing is exhaustive work that takes determination and learned skill. Suffice it to say, this is a solid piece of work, markedly better than the last. I solidly enjoyed it and will seek out 'Tom Knox's' next work of fiction: The Lost Godess.
    • 4/5
      Like any compilation of short stories, there are some high and low points to this book, but I appreciated each story for the Haitian perspective the author contributed. Each story also seemed to be influenced by (but didn’t necessarily go overboard with) the folklore and superstition that appears to pervade the history and culture. And there were a few stories dealing with the earthquake, devastation, and aftermath – really eye opening. The anthology and the stories themselves are filled with contrasting emotions, love and hate, corruption and justice, hope and despair, making it a rollercoaster of a read.
    • 2/5
      Really uneven collection, a quality I might attribute to:

      1. Writers underachieving or overreaching in their reinterpretation of noir;
      2. Literal (and literal-minded) translation.

      I loved a few of the stories and hated a few more, but plan on seeking out more from each contributor regardless. Trouble is, many of them have published their best work in francophone literary journals, likely hard to come by via public library here.