Ready to Burst
  • Published: 15 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9781935744788
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $35.00
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Ready to Burst

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Ready to Burst follows the lives of two young men and their individual attempts to make sense of the deeply troubled society surrounding them. An informed critique of the “brain drain” prompted by the Duvalier dictatorship, Ready to Burst is, in Frankétienne’s words, a portrait of “the extreme bitterness of doom in the face of the blind machinery of power.” Widely recognized as Haiti’s most important literary figure and an outspoken challenger of political oppression, Frankétienne was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. The New York Times has called Frankétienne “the Father of Haitian Letters.”
  • Published: 15 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9781935744788
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

Praise for Ready to Burst

  • "His work can speak to the most intellectual person in the society as well as the most humble. It's a very generous kind of genius he has, one I can't imagine Haitian literature ever existing without." -- Edwidge Danticat

  • "The "burst" in "Ready to Burst", also announces the eruption onto the scene of one of literature's great figures [...] a magician of technique and feeling, in the tradition of a great family of writers like James Joyce, João Guimarães Rosa et Osman Lins." Rafael Lucas in his preface to the 2004 French edition of "Ready to Burst"

  • "Each of Frankétienne's words builds a world of which every Haitian dreams." Emmelie Prophete, Haitian-American writer (Interview w/Huffington Post)

  • "Frankétienne speaks like an educated man [...] but also like a friend and a citizen of the world at peace with himself and with others." Annick Chalifour, l'Express.

  • "It is Frankétienne's audacity in his writing - his charming ability to calmly bring his interlocutor into his initially terrifying world [...] which makes him such an incredible writer and persona". Alessandra Benedicty, Professor at the City College of New York (Interview w/ Huffington Post)

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