Street Of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot
A disenchanted, middle-class narrator wanders Port-au-Prince through a restless night on the eve of a mass demonstration, having been pressed to craft a speech meant to stir the crowds. As he moves between upscale salons and precarious neighborhoods, he encounters stories that lay bare the city’s entrenched inequalities and cyclical violence. Haunted by memories of a lost love and the failures of his own detachment, he wrestles with the power and peril of words and the impossibility of remaining neutral as history threatens to tip into bloodshed.
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- 1996
- Nationality
- Haitian
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- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
- - Rue des pas perdus
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