Word: cyprien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready Treatment. Soon strange reports began reaching health authorities. In the Algerian village of Saint-Cyprien-des-Attafs, a French mother tried to cure one child of boils and prevent three others from getting them by giving the kids Stalinon. Within days, the four children, aged seven to 14, were dead. Here and there around France people suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead...
Diogène Cyprien, prosperous Haitian trader, had only one serious weakness: women. Otherwise, he was a most estimable citizen, honest in business and kind to his children. When his old mother died, he promised her to abide by most of the Christian virtues, but he drew the line at being faithful to his wife. And when he set eyes on the luscious Lourdes, with her full mouth and hypnotic eyes, he knew temptation had struck again. He went on another fling...
...engrossing novel about the damage wrought by African voodoo on middle-class Haitians. Product of a miniature literary renaissance in Haiti, The Pencil of God gleams with quaint freshness, a strange blend of Haitian folklore and Western sophistication. To many U.S. readers the world of Diogène Cyprien may, in fact, seem almost outlandish: here the symbols of voodoo and Roman Catholicism merge in half-enlightened minds, men are possessed by implacable spirits they cannot control, and the day-to-day world is seen as an acting-out of the imperatives of voodoo mythology...