The Immortals
Makenzy Orcel
(Author)
Nathan H. Dize
(Translator)
Description
Translation of the award-winning debut novel by Haitian writer Makenzy Orcel about the lives of prostitutes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid the 2010 earthquake.
Product Details
Price
$18.95
$17.62
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publish Date
November 01, 2020
Pages
132
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.4 X 0.5 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781438480565
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About the Author
Nathan H. Dize is pursuing his PhD in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University.
Reviews
"...a moving memorial to a diverse cast of women, whose hopes, desires, needs, and wishes are no longer silenced." -- New West Indian Guide
"...a moving, poetic image of Port-au-Prince's brothel-lined Grand Rue. This pared-down, evocative story reverberates with the pain of women struggling to find escape from their constrained lives." -- Publishers Weekly
"By translating Les Immortelles into English, Dize cultivates not only the visibility of marginal bodies and voices, in particular those who have disappeared in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but also that of debut writers whose imaginaries can travel across languages and cultures through the mindful intervention of the translator." -- Reading in Translation
"Makenzy Orcel's gut-punch of a novel renders the complex lives of a chorus of Haitian women who desire nothing so much as to be heard, generously offering a window onto Haiti's recent experience of so-called natural disaster. Heartbreaking and defiant in equal measure, Orcel's novel tells the stories of Haiti's most marginal without sensationalism or sentimentality. Its publication in English, in a translation that so well transmits the urgency and depth of Orcel's prose, is a gift Anglophone readers would do well to pick up and open immediately." -- Kaiama L. Glover, author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon
"The novel The Immortals is proof that misfortune does not always have the final say, even after a terrible earthquake. Shakira and all the novel's characters thumb their nose in the face of misfortune and stand tall and fierce amidst the storm--to our great fortune." -- Yanick Lahens, author of Moonbath
"...a moving, poetic image of Port-au-Prince's brothel-lined Grand Rue. This pared-down, evocative story reverberates with the pain of women struggling to find escape from their constrained lives." -- Publishers Weekly
"By translating Les Immortelles into English, Dize cultivates not only the visibility of marginal bodies and voices, in particular those who have disappeared in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but also that of debut writers whose imaginaries can travel across languages and cultures through the mindful intervention of the translator." -- Reading in Translation
"Makenzy Orcel's gut-punch of a novel renders the complex lives of a chorus of Haitian women who desire nothing so much as to be heard, generously offering a window onto Haiti's recent experience of so-called natural disaster. Heartbreaking and defiant in equal measure, Orcel's novel tells the stories of Haiti's most marginal without sensationalism or sentimentality. Its publication in English, in a translation that so well transmits the urgency and depth of Orcel's prose, is a gift Anglophone readers would do well to pick up and open immediately." -- Kaiama L. Glover, author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon
"The novel The Immortals is proof that misfortune does not always have the final say, even after a terrible earthquake. Shakira and all the novel's characters thumb their nose in the face of misfortune and stand tall and fierce amidst the storm--to our great fortune." -- Yanick Lahens, author of Moonbath
