NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “brilliant book, undoubtedly the best one yet by an enormously talented writer” (The Washington Post Book World), about love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history.
In this award-winning, bestselling work of fiction that moves between Haiti in the 1960s and New York in the present day, we meet an unusual man who is harboring a vital, dangerous secret. He is 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, we enter the lives of those around him, and his secret is slowly revealed. Edwidge Danticat’s brilliant exploration of the “dew breaker”–or torturer–is an unforgettable story from one of America’s most essential writers.
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/08/2005
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781400034291
Language: English
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