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Marie-Celie Agnant

    Marie-Célie Agnant crafts narratives that explore profound themes of identity, memory, and cultural heritage. Her prose is distinguished by its lyrical quality and its capacity to delve into the complexities of human emotion. Through her storytelling, she examines the repercussions of migration and the quest for belonging in unfamiliar territories. Agnant's distinctive style, a blend of lyricism and urgency, invites readers into a deeply reflective experience.

    A Knife in the Sky
    • 2022

      A Knife in the Sky

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      "A Knife in the Sky is Haitian-Québécoise writer Marie-Célie Agnant's most recent novel. Like most of the author's oeuvre, the book is preoccupied with colonial imposition and its weight specifically on women. In A Knife in the Sky, Agnant locates the power of resistance in women and in the pen: the novel's first narratrix, Mika, is a journalist dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during the repressive Duvalier regime, supported by a cast largely made up of other strong women; the second is her granddaughter, a student from Grenada named Junon. Based on the lived history of those who survived the Duvalierists, A Knife in the Sky is brutal, terrifying, and hopeful."-- Provided by publisher

      A Knife in the Sky