The Festival of the Greasy Pole

by René Depestre

Book Overview

This novel is one of the most important statements about the Duvalier regime in Haiti, written by a Haitian who played a prominent role in the revolutionary movement that brought down the Lescot regime in January 1946. _The Festival of the Greasy Pole_ includes a scathing caricature of Papa Doc Duvalier and the bloodbath that he visited on his own country.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813912822
• ISBN13: 9780813912820
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

a strong river of love, magic and a loud cry for justice

Depestre fills your brain with what is like to be in a system where you have no choice other than stand for what you believe. The reader does not need to be latinamerican to feel the experience of repression. The fluent narrative involves you more and more and when you less expected...you have finished the book... i strongly recomend it.