Le soulèvement des âmes

Description

At the end of the 18th century, Haiti was a country ravaged by malaria, haunted by the violence that marked its colonisation, torn between the conflicting interests of its races (mulattoes, whites, blacks deported from Africa) and its classes (landowners and merchants, priests and soldiers, freedmen and slaves).

Against a backdrop of burning plantations and revolutionary turmoil, the legendary Toussaint Louverture, a second-generation African slave, determined to resist the excesses of the masses and end French rule in Haiti, prepares to become the hero of a rebellion of unimaginable violence... A finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award, this strikingly realistic and powerful novel is the first volume of a trilogy devoted to the slave revolt in Haiti and, more broadly, to the issue of racial hatred.

The second volume, Le maître des carrefours, is being published simultaneously by Actes Sud.