Sweet Undoings

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Beschreibung

<b>Yanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, <i>Sweet Undoings</i>.</b><p>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.</p><p>Brune's father, Judge Berthier, was assassinated, guilty of maintaining integrity in a city where everything is bought. Six months after this disappearance, Brune wholly refuses to come to terms with what happened. Her uncle Pierre, a gay man who spent his youth abroad to avoid persecution, refuses to give up on solving this unpunished crime.</p><p>Alongside Brune and Pierre, Francis becomes acquainted with myriad other voices of Port-au-Prince, including Ézèchiel, a poet desperate to escape his miserable neighborhood; Waner, a diligent pacifist; and Ronny the American, at ease in Haiti as in a second homeland.</p><p>Drawing its power from the bowels of the city, <i>Sweet Undoings</i> moves with a rapid, electric syncopation, gradually and tenderly revealing the richness of the lives within.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781646052158

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

200 x 125 x 12 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Deep Vellum Publishing