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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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The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400034291
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The Dew Breaker

Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $13.95

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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375705045
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
A Novel
Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 18, 1998
Price: $14.00

At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage.  

At the... Read more >
Krik? Krak!
Krik? Krak!
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679766575
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Krik? Krak!

Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
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! In her second novel, Edwidge 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... Read more >
Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400034307
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Brother, I'm Dying

Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
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 >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.
Love, Anger, Madness
Love, Anger, Madness
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur, Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679643517
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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
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 >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
After the Dance
After the Dance
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780609609088
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After the Dance
A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
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 >
Also available as an eBook.
Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400041152
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Brother, I'm Dying

Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
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 >
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The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400041145
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The Dew Breaker

Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
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 >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307267733
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Brother, I'm Dying

Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 4, 2007
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 >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
After the Dance
After the Dance
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307419736
Our Price: $16.95
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After the Dance
A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
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 >
Also available as a hardcover.
The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307428394
Our Price: $13.95
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The Dew Breaker

Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

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 >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
Love, Anger, Madness

Available
July 13, 2010
Love, Anger, Madness
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur, Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812976922
Our Price: $15.00
 Quantity: 1 
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
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.00

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 >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.
Love, Anger, Madness
Love, Anger, Madness
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur, Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781588368706
Our Price: $27.00
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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
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 >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
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