Down among the Dead Men
The story of Dany Laferriere, the narrator and writer living in exile in Montreal, who finally comes home to Haiti. Nothing is different, and yet everything has changed.
There is his mother, who has never left Haiti, not even for one minute, and who still performs all the rituals of old. But there is also the army of zombies that takes over the streets at night, while the American army occupies the country by day.
Dany Laferrière is a Haitian Canadian journalist and novelist based in Montreal, Quebec.
Other publications from this author include:
- The Return (2011)
- Je suis un écrivain japonais (2009)
- The Enigma of the Return (2009)
- Heading South: A Novel (2006)
- Le cri des oiseaux fous (2000)
- La chair du Maître (1997)
- Charme des après-midi sans fin (1997)
- Chronique de la dérive douce (1994)
- Dining With the Dictator (1994)
- L’odeur du café (1993)
- Éroshima (1987)
- Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer (1985)