The Enigma of the Return av Dany Laferriere

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<p><b>"An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA,<i> Financial Times</i></b><br><br>Windsor Laferri¿ left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his father dies in New York, himself an exile for half a century, Windsor travels there to attend the funeral, and then back to Haiti to inform his mother of the death. <br><br> In Haiti, Windsor is faced with the grim truth of life in his homeland - the endemic poverty, the thwarted ambitions and broken dreams. But only here can he become a writer again . . .<br><br><i>The Enigma of the Return</i> lives where fiction, poetry and autobiography meet. These creative tensions sustain a narrative of astonishing beauty, clarity and insight.<br><br><b>"Looks set to become one of the great poetic statements of homesickness and return . . . It should be read by all exiles everywhere" Ian Thomson, <i>Independent</i></b><br><br><b>"A poetic, melancholic tour de force . . . a compelling