Description
In a single night of escalating violence in modern-day Port-au-Prince, three unlikely narrators—a poised madam, a taxi driver, and a post office employee—are drawn into a chaos they can barely name, let alone control. As their accounts braid together, the uprising’s brutality echoes backward through centuries of Haitian struggle, where revolution, power, and fear repeat themselves with grim, almost hallucinatory force. The novel probes political oppression and the fragile machinery of memory, asking what truth can survive when promises are weaponized and betrayal becomes a way of life. With Lyonel Trouillot’s distinctive, savage tenderness and sharply original storytelling, this is a harrowing meditation on how history moves from tragedy to farce to something like madness—leaving “lost footsteps” behind in its wake.
Available Editions
paperback
University of Nebraska Press
Published Jan 1, 2003
115 pages
ISBN: 9780803244436
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Details
First Published
2003
Language
eng
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot.