The Dew Breaker
Prince Frederick, Md. : RB Large Print, [2004]
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 257 pages ; 25 cm
We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret. Edwidge Danticat's brilliant exploration of the "dew breaker"-or torturer-is an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America's most essential writers. Book jacket.
Contents:
The book of the dead -- Seven -- Water child -- The book of miracles -- Night talkers -- The bridal seamstress -- Monkey tails -- The funeral singer -- The dew breaker.
Subjects:
Haitian Americans -- Fiction.
Torture -- Fiction.
Haiti -- Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Haitian Americans -- Fiction.
Torture -- Fiction.
Haiti -- Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1419303589
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|---|---|---|---|
| Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
| LPF Danticat | Main (Downtown) | First Level, Large Print Fiction | In |
