Moonbath (Paperback)

Moonbath By Yanick Lahens, Emily Gogolak (Translator), Russell Banks (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Yanick Lahens, Emily Gogolak (Translator), Russell Banks (Introduction by)
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Description


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

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.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781941920565
ISBN-10: 194192056X
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication Date: October 3rd, 2017
Pages: 216
Language: English