Moonbath

Yanick Lahens

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An award-winning, lyrically written, beautifully haunting saga of a Haitian family's fight against a curse spanning four generations.

Book Details

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publish Date: Oct 3rd, 2017
Pages: 216
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.20in - 0.70in - 0.55lb
EAN: 9781941920565
Categories: • Literary• Women• Magical Realism

About the Author

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 for Moonbath in 2014.

Emily Gogolak is a journalist focusing on migration, gender, and the US-Mexico border. A former editorial staffer at The New Yorker and a James Reston Reporting Fellow at the New York Times, she now lives in Texas. A graduate of Brown University in Comparative Literature, she is also a literary translator. Her translation of Moonbath won a 2015 French Voices Award.

Praise for this book

Winner of the Prix Femina, 2014

Winner of a French Voices Award, 2015

"A remarkable accomplishment." -- Asymptote

"Yanick Lahens adeptly dipped her pen nib in tears to write Moonbath. She brandished her writing instrument with dexterity, creating Cétoute as a metaphor symbolizing both the pain and the promise of Haiti." -- Lanie Tankard, The Woven Tale Press

"In the Haitian tradition of the rural novel [...] Yanick Lahens' Moonbath establishes itself by its grand and lucid beauty." -- Le Point

"Lahens's ambitious fresco of twentieth-century Haiti through the eyes of peasants depicts the first generation with Romain-like incision." -- Robert H. McCormick Jr, World Literature Today

"Lahens is the most important living female Haitian author in French." -- Christiane Makward

"A novel of violent beauty." -- Le Monde

"[Lahens] describes her country with a forceful beauty -- the destruction that befell it, political opportunism, families torn apart, and the spellbinding words of Haitian farmers who solely rely on subterranean powers." -- Donyapress

"One of the finest voices of Haitian contemporary literature." -- L'Ob's

"Everything is there, the content, powerful, and the style, poetic." -- Les Echos

"The novel's mythic atmosphere is enhanced by Lahens' meditations on personified nature, and Emily Gogolak's translation preserves a bare and moving voice throughout." -- The Arkansas International

"Power and corruption are ever present, and their pressures--be they sexual or economic or both--are often impossible to reckon with or escape. Though what's most surprising is the sense that one has waded fully into the world these characters inhabit, a world so alive that I sometimes forgot I was reading a book at all. I'm reminded of first reading Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, a book that similarly transported me clean out of my self and into some other world beyond." - Christian Kiefer, The Paris Review

"An invigorating and necessary investigation of tradition, politics, loss, and history." - Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan, Ploughshares

"on every reread of this multigenerational Haitian novel I find more complexity and beauty in its pages."-- Cecilia Weddell, Associate Editor of Harvard Review Online