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New Releases by Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is the author of Adieu mon frère (2011), La récolte douce des larmes (2011), Vaarwel broer (2010), Tent Life (2010), The Dew Breaker (2007).

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Adieu mon frère

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Adieu mon frère
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.

La récolte douce des larmes

release date: Jan 01, 2011
La récolte douce des larmes
A young woman working as a servant on a sugar-cane plantation tells the story of the slaughter of 20,000 Haitian men, women, and children living in the Dominican Republic in 1937.

Vaarwel broer

release date: Sep 01, 2010
Vaarwel broer
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.

Tent Life

release date: Jan 01, 2010
Tent Life
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.

The Dew Breaker

release date: Dec 18, 2007
The Dew Breaker
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--s 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. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Edwidge Danticat''s Claire of the Sea Light.

Brother, I'm Dying

release date: Sep 04, 2007
Brother, I'm Dying
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A National Book Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New York City. As Edwidge made a life in a new country, adjusting to being far away from so many who she loved, she and her family continued to fear for the safety of those still in Haiti as the political situation deteriorated. In 2004, they entered into a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. Brother I''m Dying is an astonishing true-life epic, told on an intimate scale by one of our finest writers.

Oddech, oczy, pamięć

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Le briseur de rosée

release date: Apr 06, 2005
Le briseur de rosée
Ouvrage traduit avec le concours du Centre National du Livre. Ce roman poignant explore le monde le monde d''un Dewbreaker, un « briseur de rosée », shoukèt laroze en créole : ainsi étaient surnommés les hommes, en Haïti, du temps de Duvalier, qui pénétraient au petit matin chez les gens pour les conduire dans les prisons où ils seraient sauvagement torturés. « Ils brisent les gouttes de rosée puis ils brisent les os ». Nous rencontrons ce personnage à Brooklyn, alors qu''il a déjà un certain âge. C''est un homme tranquille, sa femme l''adore, sa fille est une jeune artiste branchée, il travaille dur dans son salon de coiffure. C''est un gentil propriétaire qui loge trois travailleurs, eux aussi originaires de Haïti, au rez-de-chaussée de sa maison. Il est connu dans le voisinage ; certains ne se doutent de rien, d''autres le craignent ou croient le reconnaître, à cause de sa terrible cicatrice en travers du visage. Tout au long du roman, les destins se croisent. On va et vient entre le Haïti de 1960 et aujourd''hui. Tel un puzzle macabre, le passé du tortionnaire est vu par ses proches, ses victimes ou leur famille, jusqu''à son dernier acte contre un prêtre. Puis sa rencontre avec une femme qui va lui offrir une sorte de rédemption -quoique imparfaite mais qui le changera à jamais : « une graine plantée dans le roc venait enfin de prendre racine ». Un roman sur la sagesse, l''amour, le remords et l''espoir, sur les révoltes tant personnelles que politiques, sur les compromis que l''on fait pour survivre malgré les blessures infligées par l''histoire. Danticat réussit l''exploit d''attirer parfois la sympathie du lecteur sur l''ex-tortionnaire et nous plonge dans les entrailles du noir passé de cette île. Elle nous amène à nous interroger sur les notions de bien et de mal et sur les limites et la nature du pardon.

Vér és cukornád

release date: Jan 01, 2000

The Beacon Best of 2000

release date: Jan 01, 2000
The Beacon Best of 2000
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.

En skörd av tårar

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Palabras, Ojos, Memoria

release date: Oct 01, 1998
Palabras, Ojos, Memoria
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)

The Farming of Bones

release date: Jan 01, 1998
The Farming of Bones
From the acclaimed author of "Krik? Krak!". 1937: On the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, a maid to the young wife of an army colonel falls in love with sugarcane cutter Sebastien. She longs to become his wife and walk into their future. Instead, terror unfolds them. But the story does not end here: it begins.

Magiska länkar

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Krik? Krak!

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Krik? Krak!
Nine powerful stories about life under Haiti''s dictatorships: the terrorism of the Tonton Macoutes; the slaughtering of hope and the resiliency of love; about those who fled to America to give their children a better life and those who stayed behind in the villages; about the linkages of generations of women through the magical tradition of storytelling.

Parla con la mia stessa voce

release date: Jan 01, 1995

Jeg kommer fra et sted

release date: Jan 01, 1995

Adem, ogen, herinnering

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Adem, ogen, herinnering
Als een Haitiaans meisje op haar twaalfde naar New York verhuist krijgt zij te maken met grote culturele verschillen.

My Turn in the Fire

release date: Jan 01, 1993
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