Brilliant and tense, Dany Laferrière's first novel, How to Make Love to
a Negro Without Getting Tired, is as fresh and relevant today as when
it was first published in Canada in 1985. With ribald humor and a
working-class intellectualism on par with Charles Bukowski's or Henry
Miller's, Laferrière's narrator wanders the streets and slums of
Montreal, has sex with white women, and writes a book to save his life.
With this novel, Laferrière began a series of internationally acclaimed
social and political novels about the love of the world, and the world
of sex, including Heading South and I Am a Japanese Writer. It
launched Laferrière as one of the literary world's finest provocateurs
and continues to draw strong comparisons to the writings of James
Baldwin, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, and Jack Kerouac. The book was
made into a feature film and translated into several languages -- this
is the first U.S. edition.