| Ready to Burst Contributor(s): Franketienne (Author), Glover, Kaiama L. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 193574478X ISBN-13: 9781935744788 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 843.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.4" W x 6.2" (0.50 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ready to Burst follows the lives of two young men and their individual attempts to make sense of the deeply troubled society surrounding them. An informed critique of the "brain drain" prompted by the Duvalier dictatorship, Ready to Burst is, in Frank tienne's words, a portrait of "the extreme bitterness of doom in the face of the blind machinery of power." Widely recognized as Haiti's most important literary figure and an outspoken challenger of political oppression, Frank tienne was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. The New York Times has called Frank tienne "the Father of Haitian Letters." |