The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

by Dany Laferrière

Book Overview

On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferri re had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.

This moving and revelatory book is an eyewitness account of the quake and its aftermath. In a series of vignettes, Laferri re reveals the shock, rage, and grief experienced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551524988
• ISBN13: 9781551524986
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.9"