by Éric Sarner · Fondo de Cultura Económica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789681656768
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«El paso del viento: una historia haitiana» is the chronicle by Éric Sarner, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
El Paso del Viento is the strait separating Cuba and Haiti. In 1961, the writer Jacques Stephen Alexis, an opponent of Papa Doc Duvalier's dictatorship, tried to land in Haiti and disappeared. A traveller investigates the writer's disappearance and descends into the universe of the Haitian marvellous, where the irrational connects Africa and America.
Published in 1999, it is part of the Colección Popular of Fondo de Cultura Económica and falls under the category of history.
Recommended for readers interested in the history of Haiti and the Caribbean, as well as travel chronicles with a political background.
