In 2014, four years after the earthquake, Ian Thomson returned to Haiti. Reissue of the classic 1992 book, with a new post-earthquake foreword by the author. From the Foreword On 12 January 2010, René Préval was Haitian president when the country was devastated by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Downtown Port-au-Prince had been teeming as usual …
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Winner: Royal Society of Literature W.H.Heinemann Prize 2002. On 11 April 1987 the Italian writer Primo Levi fell to his death in the house in Turin where he was born. More than forty years after his rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, it now seemed that Levi had committed suicide. Levi’s account of Auschwitz, If …
Translation by Ian Thomson of three fictionalized essays by the Sicilian crime writer Leonardo Sciascia. From the introduction “Translation is not always satisfactory; Cervantes claimed it was simply the other side of a tapestry, a frayed and ragged version of the original. I hope I have not rendered Leonardo Sciascia that disservice: Death of …
An enthralling journey into the shadowy republic of Haiti. The land of Vodou, slave revolution and the Tontons Macoute. In this classic account, history jostles with adventure, high comedy is touched with danger, and Haiti glows like a magic charm.
