Best Selling Books by Edwidge Danticat

S''inspirant de l''essai homonyme de Camus, Edwige Danticat brosse le portrait d''artistes immigrés et d''intellectuels de tous pays, partagés entre la démocratie et la dictature, entre la liberté et la répression, entre la dette qu''ils ont envers leurs pays d''accueil et le sentiment de culpabilité qu''ils nourissent envers le pays de leurs racines, victimes de crimes qui les ont poussé à fuir, mais qui continue de hanter leur art. Portrait, mais aussi témoignage d''une situation politique qui perdure en Haïti. Histoire personnelle, mais aussi réflexion sur la création en exil, apportant la preuve qu''il n''est de vraie patrie, pour l''écrivain, que la littérature.

Amabelle Désir, une jeune Haïtienne, est au service de la Señora Valencia, une "Espagnole" dominicaine. L''une est noire, l''autre blanche. Elles ont été élevées ensemble, partageant chambre, jeux et secrets. Jusqu''à ce que Valencia épouse Pico Duarte, un officier de la garde de Rafael Trujillo, le terrible dictateur de Saint-Domingue. Alors, leur différence de couleur de peau et de classe est devenue réalité. Amabelle, depuis, se contente d''une paillasse où la rejoint, le plus souvent possible, Sébastien, un coupeur de canne à sucre häitien. Un matin d''août 1937, Valencia accouche de jumeaux, un garçon, Rafi, "la peau couleur de crème de coco", et une fille, Rosalinda, "la peau d''un bronze profond, à mi-chemin entre le brun des noix du Brésil et le salsifis noir". Deux enfants à l''image de la dualité de l''île d''Hispaniola, partagée entre Haïti l''Africaine et Saint-Domingue l''Européenne. Terrible confrontation qui s''achèvera, cette année-là, par le massacre de 20 000 Haïtiens, coupeurs de canne et domestiques. Edwidge Danticat, pour son deuxième roman, fait preuve d''une magnifique maîtrise. Elle emmène le lecteur dans un monde aussi lumineux que tourmenté, aussi cruel que sublime, tendre et violent, basculant des cauchemars les plus sanglants aux désordres amoureux. La Récolte douce des larmes, entre l''oeuvre de mémoire et le chant lyrique d''un peuple malmené, nous entraîne au coeur de la culture haïtienne. Edwidge Danticat est née en Haïti en 1969 et est partie pour les Etats-Unis à l''âge de douze ans. Son premier roman, Le cri de l''oiseau rouge (Pygmalion, 1995), a été suivi d''un recueil de nouvelles, Krik ? Krak ! (Pygmalion, 1996.) Edwidge Danticat a été citée parmi les " 20 meilleurs jeunes écrivains américains " par la revue Granta en 1996. Elle vit à New York.

À la suite du tremblement de terre ayant secoué Port-au-Prince le 12 janvier 2010, un garçonnet de 7 ans se retrouve coincé sous les décombres. Il faut huit jours avant que les secours n''arrivent à le libérer de sa prison. Huit jours pendant lesquels il survit en puisant dans les souvenirs de moments heureux qu''il a partagés avec sa famille et son copain Oscar, qui périt malheureusement sous les pierres. Sur chaque double page, l''enfant partage l''un de ces moments de bonheur qui l''aident à tenir le coup : les tournois de billes, les parties de cache-cache, les histoires que lui racontaient le coiffeur, les répétitions de la chorale, les promenades dans une campagne balayée par une douce pluie, les tours de vélo autour de la statue du Marron inconnu sise devant le palais présidentiel ou encore la dégustation de mangues bien juteuses.

Una oleada de violencia tiene lugar en Port-au-Prince, Haiti, como motivo de nuevas elecciones. Celiane Esperance es una joven haitiana que, junto a su madre, se ve en peligro de muerte. Este es el intrigante y apasionante relato de como se transforma la perspectiva que tiene la joven frente a su país y a su propia vida.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert was born in Port-au-Prince in 1962. The author of numerous works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, he has lived and taught in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Robert H. McCormick Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing at Franklin University Switzerland. Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Brother, I''m Dying, is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a MacArthur Genius Grant.

Taken after the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the images in Tent Life: Haiti document the makeshift tent communities that Haitians have been forced to live in to survive. Gallery visited Haiti with seven other artists from New York, who all volunteered their time and talents to bring smiles to Haitians while photographing and filming their heartbreaking story. These portraits communicate the resilience, dignity and strength of the Haitian people surviving, living, working and vehemently not waiting for others to determine their fate.

Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat''s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We''re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience. From hurricanes to political violence, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shooting hoax at a Miami mall, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout, literature and art prove to be her reliable companions and guides in both tragedies and triumphs. Danticat is an irresistible presence on the page: full of heart, outrage, humor, clear thinking, and moral questioning, while reminding us of the possibilities of community. And so "we''re alone" is both a fearsome admission and an intimate invitation-we''re alone now, we can talk. We''re Alone is a book that asks us to think through some of the world''s intractable problems while deepening our understanding of one of the most significant novelists at work today. PRAISE FOR EDWIDGE DANTICAT ''In Danticat''s hands, with great tenderness, these hidden lives are moved away from the margins'' TLS ''Stunning ruminations on the Haitian diaspora identity, as well as the layered complexities of seeking hope after tragedy . . . Read it, you will not be disappointed'' Bad Form

Set in Haiti''s impoverished villages and in New York''s Haitian community, this is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then summoned to America. In New York, Sophie discovers that Haiti imposes harsh rules on its own. (OneSource)

Célimène. Conte de fée pour fille d’immigrante raconte l’histoire de Célimène, orpheline, qui vit avec son frère cadet Mo à Pik Rose. Fille de paysans, elle connaît les secrets des rivières, des plantes et des animaux. La vie suit son cours jusqu’à ce que survienne Zaken, qui la demande en mariage. Elle quitte alors son village natal pour suivre son mari, selon la coutume. Célimène vit là-bas de multiples aventures, et aussi quelques surprises : Zaken, qu’elle croyait être un simple paysan, s’avère être le chef du village, et il entretient une relation mystérieuse avec Liya, une phénoménale anaconda de 12 mètres de long. Pour survivre, Célimène apprend à se battre et à inventer l’espoir. Dans cette aventure, elle apprend aussi ce qu’est l’exil : changer de pays, changer de peau sans pour autant disparaître. Dans ce conte touchant où s’entremêlent amour et jalousie, tolérance et révolte, Edwidge Danticat offre avec grâce et discrétion, comme dans une peinture primitive, des scènes de vie d’une famille paysanne qui découvre à travers maintes épreuves la douleur de l’exil.

"En 1937 el dictador dominicano Leónidas Trujillo desata una feroz persecución contra los haitianos. En ella pierden la vida cientos de hombres, mujeres y niños que han llegado a República Dominicana buscando trabajo. Algunos pocos logran huir y salvar su vida. Pero será una vida nostálgica, incompleta, marcada para siempre por los fantasmas de los muertos. En esta encrucijada histórica se enredan los destinos de Amabelle y Sebastien, protagonistas de Cosecha de huesos. A la edad de ocho años, y tras la trágica muerte de sus padres, Amabelle es recogida por un coronel del ejército dominicano y su esposa, que la llevan a vivir con ellos. Allí crece junto a su ama, la señora Valencia, a quien sirve como empleada y quiere como amiga. Pero el gran amor de su vida es Sebastien, un joven haitiano que trabaja en las plantaciones de caña. Amabelle sueña con hacer su vida junto a Sebastien, pero antes de que pueda lograrlo se desata el horror. Todo su mundo de afectos y de esperanzas se derrumba en una sola noche de huída. Y empieza para ella otro que tendrá que reconstruir de la nada. Cosecha de huesos es un relato que habla de amor, de lealtad, y de barbarie, y una exploración de la violencia y sus más profundas repercusiones en la vida de los hombres."--Descripción del editor.

See below for English description. Préparez-vous à découvrir 300 merveilles loufoques, faits divers et statistiques sur les sciences, les animaux, la géographie, l''espace et plus encore! Ces livres remplis de faits sont très populaires et très appréciés dans les classes, les bibliothèques, à la maison et partout ailleurs! Une lecture rapide qui satisfait la curiosité et enrichit l''amour de la lecture. There''s nothing that a mother can''t fix. Whether it''s a bump on the knee or a bad day at school, mom always has the remedy! There''s no shortage of tricks up her sleeve; a cozy cup of hot chocolate, a comforting bubble bath, or a big bear hug. How will this mom comfort her child to turn a bad day into the best day? This heartwarming picture book by award-winning author Edwidge Danticat and illustrator Shannon Wright beautifully depicts the special relationship between a mother and child. This masterpiece is perfect for Mother''s Day and any day! Original title: My Mommy Medicine

Op de dag dat Edwidge ontdekt dat ze zwanger is, hoort ze dat haar vader ongeneeslijk ziek is. Ze neemt direct contact op met de broer van haar vader in Haïti. Oom Joseph is als een tweede vader voor Edwidge: ze woonde jarenlang bij hem in huis, tot ze op haar twaalfde herenigd kon worden met haar ouders in New York. Vol compassie en ontzag vertelt Edwidge het levensverhaal van de twee broers. Hoe oom Joseph haar opvoedde en hoe hij op een dag zijn stem verloor, waardoor hij niet meer kon preken in de kerk die hij zelf had gebouwd. En hoe haar ouders een nieuw leven begonnen in Amerika, waar ze voortdurend vreesden voor de veiligheid van familie en vrienden die in Haïti achterbleven. Edwidge Danticat schreef met Vaarwel, broer een diep ontroerend familierelaas over de levens en de dood van twee broers, en haar liefde voor hen beiden.

Drawing from a wide range of authors, experts, and historical texts, this collection challenges historical stereotypes and counters 200 years of cultural myths and disinformation. These essays explain the background to the current crisis in Haiti, revealing the intertwined relationship between the United States and Haiti and the untold stories of the Haitian people’s resistance to U.S. aggression and occupations. Included are a time line, photo essay, author biographies, and bibliography. This revised edition also includes context surrounding the response to the tragic 2010 earthquake disaster.

Coletânea de contos escritos por autoras latino-americanas e caribenhas contemporâneas. Os 14 textos são de: Alejandra Zina (Argentina), Carla Piazzi (Brasil), Claudia Hernández (El Salvador), Claudia Ulloa Donoso (Peru), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), Elena Poniatowska Amor (México), Inés Fernández Moreno (Argentina), Ivelisse Rodriguez (Porto Rico), Jamaica Kincaid (Antígua), Jarid Arraes (Brasil), Liliana Colanzi (Bolívia), Lina Meruane (Chile), Mayra Santos-Febres (Porto Rico) e Silvana Tavano (Brasil). Editora: Incompleta Organização e traduções: Laura Del Rey e Raquel Dommarco Pedrão Apresentação: Leticia Pilger da Silva Preparação e revisão de textos: Aline Caixeta Rodrigues Catalogação: Ruth Simão Paulino Publicado em março de 2022. Saiba mais em https://incompleta.com.br

What if Martin Luther King Jr., this name-branded, oft-sanitized preacher from Atlanta, is a prophet whose message America has yet to fully reckon with? Ten days before Martin Luther King Jr.''s assassination, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said, "Where in America today do we hear a voice like the voice of the prophets of Israel? Martin Luther King is a sign that God has not forsaken the United States of America. God has sent him to us." What if Heschel''s words about King are true? What if this name-branded, oft-sanitized, Super-Bowl-ad-commercialized, National-Mall-memorialized preacher from Atlanta . . . is a prophet whose message America has yet to fully reckon with? This issue of Plough Quarterly looks at King''s unfinished struggle against the three evils of racism, materialism, and militarism. Perspectives from Edwidge Danticat, Gary Dorrien, Brandon M. Terry, D. L. Mayfield, Eugene Rivers, and Susannah Heschel explore the ways King''s message of nonviolence, justice, and love of neighbor still matters today: to refugees and immigrants, soldiers and veterans, preachers and prisoners, black lives matter activists and the white working class. Also in this issue: original poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye; reviews of new books by James Forman Jr., Steve Krivák, Jim Forest, and Christopher de Hamel; and art by Yvan Lamothe, Roberson Joseph, Barry Moser, Benny Andrews, Zoe Cromwell, Julian Peters, Asuka Hishiki, Mark Smith, Mary Kang, Marc Chagall,John Partipilo, Yuri Kozyrev, Vinicius Barajas, Iain Stewart, Giovanni Bellini. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus'' message into practice and find common cause with others.

Whose lives count as fully human? The answer matters for everyone, disabled or not. The ancient Greek ideal linked physical wholeness to moral wholeness - the virtuous citizen was "beautiful and good." It''s an ideal that has all too often turned deadly, casting those who do not measure up as less than human. In the pre-Christian era, infants with disabilities were left on the rocks; in modern times, they have been targeted by eugenics. Much has changed, thanks to the tenacious advocacy of the disability rights movement. Yesteryear''s hellish institutions have given way to customized educational programs and assisted living centers. Public spaces have been reconfigured to improve access. Therapies and medical technology have advanced rapidly in sophistication and effectiveness. Protections for people with disabilities have been enshrined in many countries'' antidiscrimination laws. But these victories, impressive as they are, mask other realities that collide awkwardly with society''s avowals of equality. Why are parents choosing to abort a baby likely to have a disability? Why does Belgian law allow for euthanasia in cases of disability, even absent a terminal diagnosis or physical pain? Why, when ventilators were in short supply during the first Covid wave, did some states list disability as a reason to deny care? On this theme: - Heonju Lee tells how his son with Down syndrome saved another child''s life. - Molly McCully Brown and Victoria Reynolds Farmer recount their personal experiences with disability. - Amy Julia Becker says meritocracies fail because they value the wrong things. - Maureen Swinger asks six mothers around the world about raising a child with disabilities. - Joe Keiderling documents the unfinished struggle for disability rights. - Isaac T. Soon wonders if Saint Paul''s "thorn in the flesh" was a disability. - Leah Libresco Sargeant reviews What Can a Body Do? and Making Disability Modern. - Sarah C. Williams says testing for fetal abnormalities is not a neutral practice. Also in the issue: - Ross Douthat is brought low by intractable Lyme disease. - Edwidge Danticat flees an active shooter in a packed mall. - Eugene Vodolazkin finds comic relief at funerals, including his own father''s. - Kelsey Osgood discovers that being an Orthodox Jew is strange, even in Brooklyn. - Christian Wiman pens three new poems. - Susannah Black profiles Flannery O''Conner. - Our writers review Eyal Press''s Dirty Work, Steve Coll''s Directorate S, and Millennial Nuns by the Daughters of Saint Paul. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face. Each issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art.

Canwe move beyond borders that divide us without losing our identity? Overthe past decade, theyearning for rootedness, for being part of a story bigger than oneself, hasflared up as a cultural force to be reckoned with. There''s much to affirm in thisdesire to belong to a people. That means pride in all that is admirable in thenation to which we belong - and repentance for its historic sins. Afocus on national identity, ofcourse, can lead to darker places. The new nationalists, who in Westerncountries often appeal to the memory of a Christian past, applaud whengovernments fortify borders to keep out people who are fleeing for their lives.(Needless to say, such actions are contrary to the Christian faith.) Is ouryearning for roots doomed to lead to a heartless politics of exclusion? Doesmaintaining group or national identity require borders guarded with lethalviolence? Theanswer isn''t artificial schemes for universal brotherhood, such as a universal language. Our differencesare what make a community human. Might the true ground for community lie deepereven than shared nationality or language? After all, the biblical vision ofhumankind''s ultimate future has "every tribe and language and people andnation" coming together - beyond all borders but still as themselves. In this issue: - Santiago Ramosdescribes a double homelessness immigrant children experience as outsiders inboth countries. - Ashley Lucasprofiles a Black Panther imprisoned for life and looks at the impact on hisfamily. - Simeon Wiehlerhelps a museum repatriate a thousand human skulls collected by a colonialist. - Yaniv Sageecalls Zionism back to its founding vision of a shared society withPalestinians. - StephanieSaldaña finds the lost legendary chocolates of Damascus being crafted in Texas. - EdwidgeDanticat says storytelling builds a home that no physical separation can takeaway. - Phographer RiverClaure reimagines Saint-Exupéry''s LePetit Prince as an Aymara fairy tale. - Ann Thomas tellsof liminal experiences while helping families choose a cemetery plot. - Russell Moorechallenges the church to reclaim its integrity and staunch an exodus. You''ll also find: - Prize-winning poemsby Mhairi Owens, Susan de Sola, and Forester McClatchey - A profile of Japanesepeacemaker Toyohiko Kagawa - Reviews ofFredrik deBoer''s The Cult of Smart,Anna Neima''s The Utopians, and AmorTowles''s The Lincoln Highway - Insights onfollowing Jesus from E. Stanley Jones, Barbara Brown Taylor, Teresa of Ávila,Oscar Romero, Martin Luther King Jr., Eberhard Arnold, Leonardo Boff, MeisterEckhart, C. S. Lewis, Hermas, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Plough Quarterly features stories,ideas, and culturefor people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-deptharticles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus''message into practice and find common cause with others.

" Ils venaient avant l''aube, au moment où la rosée se dépose sur les feuilles, et ils vous emmenaient. " En Haïti, les " briseurs de rosée ", ce sont les tontons macoutes, des tortionnaires à la solde des Duvalier. Sur le visage balafré d''un homme tranquille, le passé refait surface : coiffeur à New York, il semble avoir effacé toute trace de son ancienne profession. Personne ne sait même d''où vient cette cicatrice inquiétante. Mais pour sa fille rebelle et curieuse, pour sa femme mystique, pour les témoins, les familles des victimes, il faut que la vérité éclate ! Peut-on reconvertir l''amertume en pardon, tirer une croix sur le passé et continuer de vivre ? Les chapitres de ce roman s''unissent peu à peu pour dévoiler les traumatismes d''un pays sous la dictature et l''horreur de vivre avec un criminel impuni. Edwidge Danticat donne à ce récit lucide un souffle bouleversant.

In a personal memoir, the author describes her relationships with the two men closest to her--her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the United States.

Now in its second year, "The Beacon Best" continues to be the alternative literary annual, this year edited by the rising literary star Edwidge Danticat, and featuring the electrifying work of Julia Alvarez, Sherman Alexie, Ai, Isabel Allende, Fred D''Aguiar, Ifeona Fulani, Walter Mosley, Nicholas Samaras, Lois Ann Yamanaka and others.

Eine Liebesgeschichte voller Magie, angesiedelt vor dem harten Leben der Arbeiter und des Hauspersonals in der Dominikanischen Republik in den 30er Jahren.