Philomé Robert’s Port-au-Prince Cotonou: Un écho sans retour [Port-au-Prince Cotonou: An Echo with No Return] was published in July 2025 by Caraïbéditions.
Description: Set in Haiti, in the 1940s, at the end of the bloody American occupation and while World War II rages. Two young people, Léonce and Nortilia, inspired by a character as whimsical as he is mysterious, vow to leave the island as soon as the opportunity arises.
The times are turbulent, full of threats and hopeless futures. What if Africa were opening its arms to them? What is this strange bond that draws them to the land of their ancestors? Patiently, over time, with the upheavals of a changing world, despite the assaults of the pro-Duvalier Fascists, they build the road that takes them to the crossroads of African independence, the one in which Haitians played a decisive but little-known role.
Philomé Robert is a journalist atFRANCE 24. After studying law, he began his career at Radio Vision 2000 in Haiti, before working with RFI. In 2006, he joined FRANCE 24, where he presents the weekend morning shows. He is the author of Exil au crepuscule: De Port-au-Prince à Paris, récit du voyage forcé d’un journaliste haïtien (co-published by RFI, Apopsix, 2012) and Vagabondages éphémères (Caraïbéditions, 2022).
Port-au-Prince Cotonou. Un écho sans retour
Caraïbéditions, 2025
168 pages
ISBN: 9782373112375
For more information, see https://www.caraibeditions.fr/romans-en-francais/782-port-au-prince-cotonou-un-echo-sans-retour.html and https://www.fnac.com/a21752450/Philome-Robert-Port-au-Prince-Cotonou
Philomé Robert’s Port-au-Prince Cotonou: Un écho sans retour [Port-au-Prince Cotonou: An Echo with No Return] was published in July 2025 by Caraïbéditions. Description: Set in Haiti, in the 1940s, at the end of the bloody American occupation and while World War II rages. Two young people, Léonce and Nortilia, inspired by a character as whimsical
