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Safe from the fierce Caribbean sun, a young boy sits on the verandah of his grandmother's house in Petit Goave, Haiti. But this is not just any porch, and Petit-Goave is not just any provincial village, and his grandmother Da is not just any woman. The porch is the center of village life, and an excellent place from which to watch the world and its strange and wonderful workings.
His grandmother Da, the grand matriarch of the town, is part priestess, part philosopher, dispensing wisdom and cups of black burning coffee as the world revolves around her.
And what a world passes by. There are pipe-smoking peasant women, coming to market, young beauties in silk dresses, three-legged dogs, the ghosts of the dear departed, and a kaleidoscope of other characters all better than life, including a mad bride, a lottery salesman selling magic tickets, voodoo doctor Baron Samedi, impeccably dressed in a top hat, and Legype, whose left forearm was bitten off by a dogfish.
For this young man, his tenth summer is one that will teach him the wisdom of life and the mysteries of death. Written with sensuality, tenderness, humor and magic, An Aroma of Coffee reaveals another side of Laferriere, the man and the author. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But time isn’t irrelevant to the characters. History is oral and each character has a different version. The future is foretold in dreams. In other words the past is a rumour and a future a dream.
There’s a lot going on in this book, one of them being the coupling of disparate elements. Take chapter one, the sections The Park, Animals and The Game. First the idyll of the horses grazing, but they’re injured. Then the boys playing football beside them, but one has green flies in its eye. That coupling of an idyll and disease. Then the boy injured by the horse who eats all the leeches. That coupling of disease and humour. Finally the boys playing football until darkness falls. Darkness representing death here. These are themes and images that are returned to again many times in this, what, prose poem?
It’s also very funny. I loved the bit with the inkwells and the little blue penises. ( )