In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student’s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti’s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty’s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.
Originally published by les éditions du remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, this book, like most of the author’s oeuvre, is preoccupied with colonial imposition. Marie-Célie Agnant writes on the ruthlessness of a dictatorship, on humanity, and locates the strength and power of resistance in women.
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- Toronto, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover Page 1
- Half Title Page 2
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Dedication 6
- A KNIFE IN THE SKY 2
- CONTENTS 8
- I 10
- THE SMELL OF BLOOD AND TAR 12
- HATRED IN HIS VEINS 31
- AS NIGHT FALLS 39
- RAW OCTOBER 47
- BRIGAND’S BALL IN THE BROTHEL OF THE LORD 53
- JEANNE’S SEASON OF SORROW 62
- BÉATRICE IMBERT 66
- WOMEN DISMANTLED 71
- THE SIEGE 76
- CLARISSE’S FURY 80
- ONE LAST TIME 84
- THE ATTACK 94
- II 96
- GRANADA, 1974 98
- POISONED MEMORY 104
- WHAT LIFE REMAINS 108
- STITCHES OF MEMORY 111
- BITTER TONGUES 119
- FORCING THE DAWN 126
- CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE 136
- NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS 142
- LOVE, RELICS, AND PHILOSOPHY 148
- AS THE VOICELESS CRY 155
- MARIGOT, A SHROUD FOR A CAUL 161
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 172
- TRANSLATOR’S NOTES 173
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR 174
- ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR 175
