Thank you for this wonderful review of Dezafi. Thank you for rooting for this unusual novel and one of the few works of fiction by a Haitian author to be available in English. Allow me, though, to redresss an important error in the piece: Franketienne wrote Dezafi in Haitian Kreyol, and it is this original work I translated into English. The author did a French translation of his own work, which was published in France; this French version is different from the original in many ways. Anyway, for historical and scholarly purposes, I chose to translate the first published Kreyol novel rather than its French avatar.

Best regards,

Asselin Charles