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The Dew Breaker

Edwidge Danticat

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#1034 of 8,085 books · #550 in Fiction

Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2005). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

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--is 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.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307428394
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Political violence and traumaImmigrant experienceFamily secrets and guilt

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