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Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is the author of Brother, I’m Dying; Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!; The Farming of Bones; and The Dew Breaker. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters.
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After the Dance
A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $16.95
In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart.
Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating... Read more >
A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $16.95
In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart.
Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating... Read more >
After the Dance
A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook, 160 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
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A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook, 160 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
A Novel
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 18, 1998
Price: $14.00
Set in the villages of Haiti and in New York's community of Haitian exiles, Breath, Eyes, Memory is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then, at the age of 12, is summoned to join in her in the United... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 18, 1998
Price: $14.00
Set in the villages of Haiti and in New York's community of Haitian exiles, Breath, Eyes, Memory is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then, at the age of 12, is summoned to join in her in the United... Read more >
Brother, I'm Dying
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
Brother, I'm Dying
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $23.95
From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart—her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as... Read more >
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $23.95
From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart—her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as... Read more >
Brother, I'm Dying
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
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Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
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The Dew Breaker
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
Winner of the 2005 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
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... Read more >
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
Winner of the 2005 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
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... Read more >
The Dew Breaker
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $22.00
From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
We meet him late in his life... Read more >
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $22.00
From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
We meet him late in his life... Read more >
The Dew Breaker
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Krik? Krak!
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 2, 1996
Price: $14.00
When Haitians tell a story, they say, "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer, "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind... Read more >
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 2, 1996
Price: $14.00
When Haitians tell a story, they say, "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer, "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind... Read more >
Love, Anger, Madness
A Haitian Trilogy
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
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A Haitian Trilogy
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
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Love, Anger, Madness
A Haitian Trilogy
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $27.00
Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur, Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled Haiti. Suppressed upon its initial... Read more >
A Haitian Trilogy
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $27.00
Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur, Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled Haiti. Suppressed upon its initial... Read more >
Love, Anger, Madness
A Haitian Trilogy
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $27.00
Read more >
A Haitian Trilogy
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $27.00
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