Gouverneurs de la Rosée

Haiti's most celebrated novel, following Manuel's return to drought-stricken Fonds-Rouge after fifteen years on Cuban sugar plantations, where he must find water and restore the coumbite — the communal labor institution — to reunify a village shattered by a bitter family feud. Roumain intertwines vodou and Marxist collective redemption, making Manuel's sacrifice an allegory for peasant solidarity and national renewal, written explicitly as a counter to the paternalistic racism of the U.S. occupation era.