"Cry out loud if this manuscript ever falls before your eyes; call me shameless, immoral. Season me with insulting epithets if that will make you feel better, but you will not intimidate me any more." Here is given the tone of the story. Burning, harsh, cutting. Claire, the eldest of the Clamont sisters, quietly orchestrates a tragedy that plays out between her and her sisters. While outside, everywhere, fury rages...

"To talk about the novelist Marie Chauvet is to talk about a single book, but what a book! Her novel A mour , C olère et F olie has become over time the great novel of the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorship, commonly called Papa Doc...

And now, forty-six years after she was silenced (an absolute horror for a writer), the clear and pure voice of this lucid and indomitable novelist has resurfaced."