The Dew Breaker

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Dew Breaker
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Edwidge Danticat
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 139,Width 217
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780349117898
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Abacus
Publication Date 6 May 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, memory and Krik?Krak! (both Opera's Book Club selections), a powerful new work of fiction that explores the trials and reconciliations in the life of a man known as a 'dew breaker,' a torturer, whose past crimes in the country of his birth, lie hidden beneath his new American relaity. In Haiti in the dictatorial 1960's, Manhattan in the 1970s, Brooklyn and Queens today, we meet the dew breaker's family, neighbours, and victims. An unforgettable, deeply resonant book - of love, remorse, history, and hope, of rebellions both personal and political - The Dew Breaker proves once more that in Edwidge Danticat we have a major American writer.

Author Biography

Edwidge Danticat is the author of two novels, BREATH, EYES, MEMORY and THE FARMING OF BONES and a collection of interlinked stories, KRIK KRAK!, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in the US. She was also one of GRANTA's Best Young American Novelists.

Reviews

'Danticat is a writer of great force with still more potential' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Extraordinary ... Danticat is a young and genuinely fresh voice. The story she tells is worth a whole shelf of feminist theory' TIME OUT 'Unforgettable ... a joy to read' NEWSWEEK