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Description
Racial and sexual politics collide in this cult classic that launched Laferrière as one of North America's finest literary provocateurs.
P align=left>Brilliant and tense, Dany Laferrière's first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in 1985. With raunchy humor and a working-class intellectualism, Laferrière's narrator wanders the slums of Montreal, has sex with white women, and writes a book to save his life.
With this novel, Laferrière began a series of internationally acclaimed social and political novels about the love of the world, and the world of sex, including Heading South and I Am a Japanese Writer.
Editorial Reviews
"This is the 25th anniversary of the publication of this slim first novel, now a classic of Canadian immigrant literature, by Laferri�re. The Haitian-Canadian writer has published 14 novels and won many awards, including a Governor-General’s award and the Prix M�dicis. The book follows the adventures, sexual and otherwise, of a young Haitian man in Montreal, who is writing for his life."
— Globe & Mail
"Laferri�re's scintillating American debut recounts the sexual adventures of an eclectic cast of characters...In each story-like chapter, Laferri�re reveals the workings of race, class, and colonialism in Haitian society and the manipulative sexual power that underlies it all."
— Publisher's Weekly
"Published in 1985...the translation by David Homel, How to Make Love to a Negro, came out a year later, drawing delirious reviews across Canada as well as in the UK and the US."
— The Walrus
