It is during the regime of Duvalier, namely between 1957 an 1971. It is difficult to say exactly when the story takes place. The story continues amid the backdrop of a brutal dictatorship to an ending that is inevitable. Brown and Martha try to carry on their love affair despite difficulties. Smith meets with a government minister regarding his idea but senses it will not work. Jones winds up in jail, but somehow is freed and has a bodyguard. The body is moved but found and a funeral is held, but on the way to bury the body government thugs steal it. Philipot, a government minister, has killed himself there. Brown returns to his largely empty hotel and finds Dr. The novel begins with Brown, the Smiths and Jones arriving in Haiti. Jones, who is a mysterious man with a military background, and Madame Martha Pineda, wife of the ambassador to Haiti from Venezuela and who is having an extra-marital affair with Brown. Smith, an American couple who have come to try to create a vegetarian center, Mr. Brown, born in Manaco, who owns a hotel in Haiti, Mr. The story centers on a small group of people, the Comedians, who come to Haiti to play their parts. Graham Greene’s The Comedians is a novel set in Haiti during the regime of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier who was a brutal dictator who ruled the country from 1957 to 1971.
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