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The jury’s recognition of “this brash, lush, experimental book about a queer Black Surinamese woman” felt like a victory, said CJ Evans, Two Lines’ editor in chief, even if Roemer and the translator, Lucy Scott, didn’t win.

This month, Roemer’s introduction to American readers continues with the release of her 2019 novel, “Off-White,” translated by Scott and David McKay, which echoes earlier themes — the racial and sexual dynamics of Suriname’s multiethnic society — but with a larger scope, examining several generations of a Surinamese family in the years between World War II and the 1960s.

“It is all up now to the Haitians as they are the ones who want a Haitian-led solution,” Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin told The Associated Press.

In the title role, the Surinamese singer Jeangu Macrooy has an ethereal, deer-in-the-headlights vulnerability that is a little hard to square with the messiah’s much-vaunted charisma: His Jesus comes across more like the fey frontman of a mid-ranking indie band than a rabble-rousing revolutionary.

Marchers wore colorful traditional clothing in a Surinamese celebration of the abolition of slavery.