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Lavil: Voices from Post-Earthquake Port-au-Prince
Evan Lyon
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Description for Lavil: Voices from Post-Earthquake Port-au-Prince
Paperback. Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis Series: Voice of Witness. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 3JMG; JFFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
Half a dozen years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, but the international community no longer seems interested. This immersive and engrossing book, based on five years of research and scores of interviews translated from Haitian Kreyol, gives voice to the continuing struggle of Haitian people to reconstruct their nation from the devastation of the earthquake, and from many decades of political and economic disaster. The earthquake killed more than 200,000, rendered more than a million and a half homeless, and wiped out what little infrastructure existed ... Read more
Half a dozen years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, but the international community no longer seems interested. This immersive and engrossing book, based on five years of research and scores of interviews translated from Haitian Kreyol, gives voice to the continuing struggle of Haitian people to reconstruct their nation from the devastation of the earthquake, and from many decades of political and economic disaster. The earthquake killed more than 200,000, rendered more than a million and a half homeless, and wiped out what little infrastructure existed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Voice of Witness
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784786823
SKU
V9781784786823
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Evan Lyon
Peter Orner edited Voice of Witness titles Underground America and co-edited Hope Deferred, and is the author of four books of fiction, including the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love. His most recent book, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, was a New York Times Editor's Choice and named a Favorite Book of ... Read more
Reviews for Lavil: Voices from Post-Earthquake Port-au-Prince
A book about choosing to live and not to die, to fight, to survive, to thrive. - Edwidge Danticat Nothing is more eloquent than the voice of those who endure and try valiantly to survive. - Noam Chomsky Lavil brings to the fore the voices of the people of the wounded city of Port-au-Prince ... these ... Read more