{"product_id":"9781588140203","title":"Vale of Tears: A Novel from Haiti","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFiction. 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.","brand":"IBEX Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062261367024,"sku":"9781588140203","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781588140203_p0.jpg?v=1763791213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781588140203","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}