Gerty Dambury

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Miami, in partnership with the Miami Book Fair International and the International Studies Charter High School (ISCHS), and with the support of the University of Miami and Books & Books, has the honor to invite the French author, theater director, novelist and poet Gerty Dambury to present her most recent publication The Restless in four events from November 16th to November 18th 2018.

The author Gerty Dambury will present her book: The Restless. The event will take place in English, and will be moderated by Ms. Vanessa Selk, Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy, Miami office. The discussion will followed by a Q&A with the public and a book signing.

About The Restless (Feminist Press, January 2018):

A young girl’s curiosity about her teacher’s sudden disappearance sets the stage for a resonant analysis of 1960s Pointe-à-Pitre. This lyrical novel, structured like a Creole quadrille, is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. While Dambury’s English debut is a memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, it is also a celebration of the vibrancy and resilience of Guadeloupeans.