Gerda Cadostin, family spirits
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Portrait of the Haitian novelist Gerda Cadostin © Aline Princet
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
50 min
Through a generation of women, Gerda Cadostin tells the story of Haiti in this first novel.
A memory anchored in the Creole imagination, with a gallery of colorful characters.
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Gerda Cadostin's
novel
is a story of transmission, of the living and the dead, woven by family ties and attachment to the land.
That of Haiti.
This is where this first-time novelist was born, who has lived in France for several decades.
But his navel is buried there, in the soil of the village of Guérot in the Artibonite department, at the heart of the voodoo tradition and the history of the slave revolt and the accession to independence.
It is the story of a land and a family, hers, that Gerda Cadostin tells us in a book in which religious syncretism, between voodoo and Christianity, and the syncretism of language, between the imprint of French and Creole sap.
"Let madness run" his first novel was published by Mémoire d'Encrier.
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