The Woe Shirt: Caribbean Folk Tales

by Paule Barton, Norman Laliberté (Illustrator), Howard Norman (Translator)

English (translation)Original Creole

62 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Brian]

I hope someone brings this back into print. Simply gorgeous. Thirteen sweet little slices of shimmering folklore. Wrote more here: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...

[Robert Costic]

This is a very slim collection of tales, amounting to about thirty pages if you don't include the illustrations and title pages, but what's here is unique. The language is poetic, the images are surreal, and the structure of the tales is atypical compared to most Western conventions.