Description
Passages is the tale of a mythic journey from one world to another. It is a story of hope and shipwreck, of a group of people from a tiny village on a Carribean island who find themselves adrift when they must leave the home they know to set out for the home they dream only about.
About the author
Born in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) in 1940, Émile Ollivier is the author of two previous novels, Mére-Solitude (Prix Jacques Roumain 1985) and La discorde aux cent voix (Prix du Journal de Montréal 1987) and two collections of stories, Paysage de l’aveugle and Regarde, regarde les lions. He has lived in Montreal, Quebec for over twenty-five years where he taught at the University of Montreal, Professor Emeritus. He holds degrees in comparative literature from Oxford and Harvard.