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Moonbath de Yanick Lahens
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Moonbath (edició 2017)

de Yanick Lahens, Emily Gogolak (Translator.), Russell Banks (Writer Of Introduction.)

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Winner of the 2014 Prix Fémina & 2015 French Voices Award After she is found washed up on shore, Cétoute Olmène Thérèse, bloody and bruised, recalls the circumstances that led her there. Her voice weaves hauntingly in and out of the narrative, as her story intertwines with those of three generations of women in her family, beginning with Olmène, her grandmother. Olmène, barely sixteen, catches the eye of the cruel and powerful Tertulien Mésidor, despite the generations-long feud between their families which cast her ancestors into poverty. He promises her shoes, dresses, land, and children who will want for nothing...and five months after moving into her new home, she gives birth to a son. As the family struggles through political and economic turmoil, the narrative shifts between the voices of four women, their lives interwoven with magic and fraught equally with hope and despair, leading to Cétoute's ultimate, tragic fate. Yanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953 and is one of Haiti's most prominent authors. She published her first novel in 2000, was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina in 2014 forMoonbath, and is the 2016 winner of a French Voices Award.… (més)
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Títol:Moonbath
Autors:Yanick Lahens
Altres autors:Emily Gogolak (Translator.), Russell Banks (Writer Of Introduction.)
Informació:Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, [2017]
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A multigenerational story of the LaFleur/Clémestal/Dorival family, and the Mésidors they have been feuding with for generations.

I liked this book, it fits into Haitian history and I learned more reading this right after [book:Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy|6035374]. It also had some holes though, and I am not 100% clear on exactly what happened (and why) to the woman who washed up on the beach. Also, the Glossary is sloppy--words have asterisks in the text but are not in the glossary, or they are spelled slightly differaently. This has nothing to do with the author, this is on the publisher.
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Orvil Clémestal is the head of their lakou, and he looks back to the franginen ancestor and to the lwas for advice. He is a good man, a hard worker who fulfills his duties. But Haiti is changing, and his children have chosen different paths. One son has left the country to work. One son joined Duvalier's regime. Their daughter, after having a son by a much-older Mésidor, goes to the Dominican Republic to work. People are hungry, drought is bad, the rich get richer, who will take over Orvil's position?

Meanwhile, a woman has washed up on the beach in a Haitian town. She tells the second half of the story. Don't read the back of the book though! It gives away her identity. ( )
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Après trois jours de tempête, un pêcheur découvre, échouée sur la grève, une jeune fille qui semble avoir réchappé à une grande violence. La voix de la naufragée s’élève, qui en appelle à tous les dieux du vaudou et à ses ancêtres, pour tenter de comprendre comment et pourquoi elle s’est retrouvée là. Cette voix expirante viendra scander l’ample roman familial que déploie Yanick Lahens, convoquant les trois générations qui ont précédé la jeune femme afin d’élucider le double mystère de son agression et de son identité.
Les Lafleur ont toujours vécu à Anse Bleue, un village d’Haïti où la terre et les eaux se confondent. Entre eux et les Mésidor, devenus les seigneurs des lieux, les liens sont anciens, et le ressentiment aussi. Il date du temps où les Mésidor ont fait main basse sur toutes les bonnes terres de la région.
Quand, au marché, Tertulien Mésidor s’arrête comme foudroyé devant l’étal d’Olmène (une Lafleur), l’attirance est réciproque. L’histoire de ces deux-là va s’écrire à rebours des idées reçues sur les femmes soumises et les hommes prédateurs.
Mais, dans cette île également balayée par les ouragans politiques, des rumeurs de terreur et de mort ne tardent pas à s’élever. Un voile sombre s’abat pour longtemps sur Anse Bleue.
Pour dire le monde nouveau, celui des fratries déchirées, des déprédations, de l’opportunisme politique, Yanick Lahens s’en remet au chœur immémorial des paysans" : eux ne sont pas dupes, qui se fient aux seules puissances souterraines.
Leurs mots puissants, magiques, donnent à ce roman magistral une violente beauté.

Prix Fémina 2014
  AFNO | Dec 14, 2015 |
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Winner of the 2014 Prix Fémina & 2015 French Voices Award After she is found washed up on shore, Cétoute Olmène Thérèse, bloody and bruised, recalls the circumstances that led her there. Her voice weaves hauntingly in and out of the narrative, as her story intertwines with those of three generations of women in her family, beginning with Olmène, her grandmother. Olmène, barely sixteen, catches the eye of the cruel and powerful Tertulien Mésidor, despite the generations-long feud between their families which cast her ancestors into poverty. He promises her shoes, dresses, land, and children who will want for nothing...and five months after moving into her new home, she gives birth to a son. As the family struggles through political and economic turmoil, the narrative shifts between the voices of four women, their lives interwoven with magic and fraught equally with hope and despair, leading to Cétoute's ultimate, tragic fate. Yanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953 and is one of Haiti's most prominent authors. She published her first novel in 2000, was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina in 2014 forMoonbath, and is the 2016 winner of a French Voices Award.

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