The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
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- New
- ISBN 10
- 0349117896
- ISBN 13
- 9780349117898
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New. The dew breaker is a quiet man, a husband and father, a hard-working barber, a kindly landlord to the men living in a basement apartment in his home. He is a fixture in his Brooklyn neighbourhood, recognizable by the terrifying scar on his face. But beneath the surface of this American life lies a dangerous truth: the brutal crimes committed in the country of his birth. As his story unfolds, we enter the lives of those around him: his devoted wife and rebellious daughter, his sometimes unsuspecting, sometimes apprehensive neighbours, tenants, and clients. And in the Haiti of the dew breaker's past, we witness his last, desperate act of violence, and his first encounter with the woman who will offer him a form of redemption-albeit imperfect-that will change him forever . . . By the author of The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker is a wonderful novel of interconnected lives-a book of love, remorse, and hope; of rebellions both personal and political; of the compromises often necessary after the most intimate brushes with history.
Synopsis
Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory , an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of the Bones , an American Book Award winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures .
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- Title
- The Dew Breaker
- Author
- Edwidge Danticat
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0349117896
- ISBN 13
- 9780349117898
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2004-05
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