Colour of Dawn

About this book

Follow the Meracin family, in particular sisters Angelique and Joyeuse and their brother Fignole, in a poorer part of Port-au-Prince. Set in the course of a day, duty to the family and desire for a better life clash with a world of gunfire, racketeering and kidnapping, as the apocalyptic surroundings of the Haitian capital take hold. Port au Prince, Haiti. The police roam the streets and no-one is safe. A young man is missing, his two sisters search for him. This is the story of one day and three lives in a city where love is hard to find, life is cheap and death is all too familiar. Port au Prince, Haiti. The police roam the streets and no-one is safe. Fignole, musician, political radical is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colourful bustle, urban deprivation and political tension of the city. Eventually they will find him, but in the process they will also have found more about themselves than they wanted to know. The Colour of Dawn is the story of one day and three lives in a city where love is hard to find, life is cheap and death is all too familiar. It is the tense, passionate and vividly told story of small victories of hope in the face of a seemingly impossible fight against a monolithic regime.