Festival of the Greasy Pole (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813912813)

This novel, published for the first time in English, is one of the most important statements about the Duvalier regime in Haiti, written by a Haitian who played a prominent role in the revolutionary movement that brought down the Lescot regime in January 1946. Depestre's ironic note denying historical origins for the novel does not obscure the scathing caricature of Papa Doc Duvalier and the bloodbath that he visited on his own country, which is called "Zacharyland" after the fictionalized President-for-life Zoocrates Zachary.

Author: Rene Depestre
ISBN-10: 0813912814
ISBN-13: 9780813912813
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Language: English
Published: 09/17/1990
Pages: 194
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.58w x 0.97d