Yanick Lahens

Moonbath

Übersetzer: Gogolak, Emily

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9781941920565
• ISBN-10: 194192056X
• Artikelnr.: 46008126

Autorenporträt

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.