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Fiction. Caribbean Studies. Translated from the French by Dolores A. Schaefer. VALE OF TEARS is a stark, meditative, and vivid exploration of Coralie Santeuil's life through a series of flashbacks she has on New Year's eve as she makes fourteen stops while walking from one end of the busy city of Port-au-Prince to the other in a last quest to save her life and retain her dignity. Although the novel is set in the period around the Second World War, it is in many ways a book about contemporary Haiti. We pause to wonder what happens to the privileged when their world disintegrates. We contemplate thesurvival skills of the poor. Vale of Tears offers a critical reading of the class system and corruption which plague the country. Paulette Poujol-Oriol is one of Haiti's most celebrated novelists.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Vale of Tears
• Subtitle: A Novel from Haiti
• Author: Paulette Poujol-Oriol
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204
• EAN: 9781588140203
• ISBN: 9781588140203
• ID: 06441669
• Publisher: IBEX Publishers,U.S.
• Weight: 270 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2005

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