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Sweet undoings
- Title
- Sweet undoings / Yanick Lahens ; translated by Kaiama Glover.
- Author
- Lahens, Yanick
- Publication
- Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-
- Description
- 169 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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 Korosol Resto-Bar, when the broken and deep voice of lounge singer Brune rises from the microphone. 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 has happened. Her uncle Pierre, a gay man who spent his youth abroad to avoid persecution, refuses to give up on solving this still-unpunished crime as well. Nourishing its power from the bowels of the city, Sweet Undoings moves with a rapid, electric syncopation, gradually and tenderly revealing the intimacy of the lives within"--
- Uniform Title
- Douces déroutes. English
- Alternative Title
- Douces déroutes.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-603
- ISBN
- 9781646052158
- 1646052153
- 9781646052417 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022043760
- OCLC
- 1351472904
- Author
- Lahens, Yanick, author.
- Title
- Sweet undoings / Yanick Lahens ; translated by Kaiama Glover.
- Publisher
- Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Glover, Kaiama L., 1972- translator.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-603