Jacques Roumain, Gouverneurs de la Rosée (1944)

Jacques Roumain, Gouverneurs de la Rosée (1944) Overview Gouverneurs de la Rosée is Haiti's most celebrated novel, published in 1944 shortly before Roumain's death and widely regarded as a foundational text of Haitian and Caribbean literature. The novel follows Manuel, a young man who returns to his native village of Fonds-Rouge after fifteen years working on the sugar plantations of Cuba. He finds the village ravaged by drought and paralyzed by a bitter blood feud between two families — the Laureliens and the Dorméus — that has split the community into two hostile camps.