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Sweet Undoings

Sweet Undoings - Paperback

by Yanick Lahens
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yanick Lahens, Kaiama L. Glover (Translator)Publish date:2023-04-11Pages:228
Language:EnglishPublisher:Deep Vellum PublishingISBN-13:9781646052158ISBN-10:1646052153UPC:9781646052158Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Political, Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCZ2QG0W6T

Sweet Undoings

Yanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings.

In Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a "high-pitched sweetness", a sweetness that overwhelms Francis, a French journalist, one evening at the Corossol Restaurant-Bar, when the broken, rich voice of lounge singer Brune rises from the microphone.


Brune's father,...



Language:EnglishPublisher:Deep Vellum PublishingISBN-13:9781646052158ISBN-10:1646052153UPC:9781646052158Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Political, Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCZ2QG0W6T

Yanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. After attending school and university in France, she returned to Haiti, where she taught literature at the university in Port-au-Prince and worked for the Ministry of Culture. Her first novel was published in 2000, and she won the prestigious Prix Femina in 2014 and a French Voices Award in 2015 for Moonbath. An English translation of Moonbath...

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

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Yanick Lahens, Kaiama L. Glover (Translator)

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Yanick Lahens

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