Originally published in French as La mémoire aux abois

© Éditions Hoëbeke, 2010

University of Virginia Press

Translation and afterword © 2015 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia

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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

First published 2015

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Trouillot, Évelyne, 1954–

[La mémoire aux abois. English]

Memory at bay / Évelyne Trouillot ; translated by Paul Curtis Daw ; afterword by Jason Herbeck.

pages cm — (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from French)

“Originally published in French as La mémoire aux abois © Editions Hoëbeke, 2010”—Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8139-3808-0 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8139-3809-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8139-3810-3 (e-book)

1. Duvalier, François, 1907–1971—Fiction. 2. Haiti—Fiction. I. Daw, Paul Curtis, 1947– translator. II. Herbeck, Jason, 1971– writer of afterword. III. Title.

PQ2680.R656M4613 2015

843’.914—dc23

2015000684

Cover art: Little Bird Collages: Stellar’s Jay and Hummingbird, Diana Sudyka