Governors of the Dew , Jacques Roumain's masterpiece, translated into more than twenty languages, is the book of solidarity, love and life. This edition, produced on the occasion of the centenary of Jacques Roumain (1907-2007), is followed by a detailed biography of the author, established by Professor Léon-François Hoffmann and a glossary, which allows readers to better understand the particularities of the Roumain language.

The writer André Still said this:
Fortunately, there are quite a few books that one can recommend: read them. There are very few that one would want to say: you must read them. If you die without having read them, you have missed something important. Governors of the Dew by Jacques Roumain is one of them.

For the novelist Émile Ollivier:
[Jacques Roumain] gives us a life lesson, dare we say it, an example of the fight to elevate the part of humanity in us.

For Jacques Stephen Alexis:
Governors of the Dew is perhaps […] unique in world literature because it is unconditionally the book of love.

For Dany Laferrière:
Governors of the Dew is the most beautiful romance novel I have ever read. You only have to open it to find yourself immediately caught up in the circle of fire that surrounds Annaïse and Manuel.
Every time, somewhere in the world, I am asked for a single Haitian novel to read, I always answer Gouverneurs de la rosée by Jacques Roumain.