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God Loves Haiti: A Novel Kindle Edition
A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life after an earthquake devastates their city.
Reflecting the chaos of disaster and its aftermath, God Loves Haiti switches between time periods and locations, yet always moves closer to solving the driving mystery at its center: Will the artist Natasha Robert reunite with her one true love, the injured Alain Destiné, and live happily ever after? Warm and constantly surprising, told in the incandescent style of José Saramago and Roberto Bolaño, and reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez’s hauntingly beautiful Love in The Time of Cholera, God Loves Haiti is an homage to a lost time and city, and the people who embody it.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAmistad
- Publication dateJanuary 6, 2015
- File size1287 KB
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“So powerful as to be mesmerizing. I don’t think I’ve seen the Haitian earthquake of 2010 represented with such compassion and insight. One of those books that leave you wishing the author could produce a tome every month.” — Gary Shteyngart
“A fully mature novel in scope and perspective, as rich in ideas as in humanity. Funny, street-smart, and keenly observed, God Loves Haiti establishes Léger as one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive and irresistible new voices.” — Edwidge Danticat
“The Port-au-Prince earthquake of 2010 may seem like an odd setting for a romantic comedy, but then Haiti really is an amazing place! Dimitry Elias Léger has brought it off, with a smile, a tear, and a peppery dash of satire as a lagniappe.” — Madison Smartt Bell
“A luminous debut . . . Léger writes beautifully and with an immense humanity. . . . He renders [Haiti] in all of its stupendous beautiful tortured complexity. A stand-out novel.” — Junot Diaz
“A work of fiction that combines breathless narrative movement with memorable writing and unabashed Big Ideas. [An] impressive debut novel.” — Andrea Lee
“The heat, the horror, the taste of ashes: Reading this vivid debut novel about the Port-au-Prince earthquake of 2010-and the risky love triangle that survives it-is jolting and exhilarating.” — More magazine
“With empathy and wit, Léger captures the intricacies of a country that is at once beautiful and tortured….There is no doubt that God Loves Haiti will leave readers wanting more from this talented author.” — M&V Magazine
[God Loves Haiti] shows undeniable strength and a powerful message about creating something new out of such devastation. — Publishers Weekly
“[Léger ]deftly sketches his country’s postcolonial struggles as well as its faith, resilience and promise….his Haiti-in-crisis, richly seen and unforgettable, is all too real.” — New York Times Book Review
“Léger’s use of imagery when describing the aftermath of the earthquake is remarkable and unparalleled; it offers a refreshing perspective. God Loves Haiti is a detailed and gripping account of the tragic events that occurred, infused with a story of romance, courage and change.” — AfroPunk
From the Back Cover
“Léger deftly sketches his country’s postcolonial struggles as well as its faith, resilience, and promise.”—The New York Times Book Review
In thirty-five seconds, more than 200,000 people on the island of Haiti are killed and 1.3 million are left homeless. An earthquake has struck, ravaging a land that is plagued by poverty and poor infrastructure. Yet the amazing characters in God Loves Haiti are never simply victims.
At the heart of the novel are the connected but divergent fates of its President, his wife, and her lover. The world has fallen down around them, laying bare remorse, pain, isolation, and unalloyed grief now devastatingly realized, and irrevocably altering all their lives.
Anchoring this poignant and constantly surprising story is an affectionate portrait of Haiti, in all its complexity—its proud past as the first nation established by a successful slave revolt, its entangled politics with France and the United States, and its efforts to rise from the ruins to build anew.
“A luminous debut. . . . Léger writes beautifully and with an immense humanity. A standout novel.”—Junot Díaz
About the Author
Dimitry Elias Léger was born in Haiti and educated at St. John’s University and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. A former staff writer at Fortune magazine and the Miami Herald, he has been an adviser to the United Nations’ missions in Haiti and Geneva, and is a former global leadership fellow at the World Economic Forum.
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- ASIN : B00L19WPPC
- Publisher : Amistad; Reprint edition (January 6, 2015)
- Publication date : January 6, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 1287 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 277 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #952,599 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #39 in Haiti Travel Guides
- #132 in Historical Caribbean & Latin American Fiction
- #702 in Australia & Oceania Literature
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The whole story leads up to the central issue: will Natasha stay with her husband or seek out/find/reunite w her lover. The answer is unexpected.
Exquisite writing with many moments of levity, probably mirroring the attitude of the Haitian people throughout time, as well as during the immediate aftermath of the quake that reduced the capital city and much of the surrounding parts of the island with such devastation that the dead numbered around 200,000 and were carried to mass burials in dump trucks and bucket loaders.
While the book is not magical realism, there is something in the style of writing and the weaving in and out of time that reminds me of some of the best of that genre.
Incandescent writing.
Many unforgettable characters.
Enchanting epilogue.
I would even read this book again.
"Haitian women and their steel decisiveness mystified me like no other in much the same way they mystified my father... We men, we debate. Women, they act. We sing. They make the drums. We dither, lord, we dither. They build. My father did tell me that if I got more than second breath of chaleur from one, I should grab on to her mighty hips and never let go or bruise them. And my father was right."
Great writing. Great plot. Highly recommended.
Leger gives the reader the point of view of survivors and the tensions between commitment to the greater good and commitment to self. His organization/text structure is unique as through the organization of chapters dug deep into the characters and their conflicts at the time of the earthquake, just before the earthquake, and after the earthquake. Through this structure, he was able to develop the characters and demonstrate their growth and change.