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008 030731s2004 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2003060788
020 $a1400041147 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm52838918
035 $a(NNC)4376658
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050 00 $aPS3554.A5815$bO96 2004
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aDanticat, Edwidge,$d1969-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93100617
245 14 $aThe dew breaker /$cEdwidge Danticat.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c2004.
300 $a244 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aThe book of the dead -- Seven -- Water child -- The book of miracles -- Night talkers -- The bridal seamstress -- Monkey tails -- The funeral singer -- The dew breaker.
520 1 $a"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. He is a quiet man, a husband and father, a hardworking barber, a kindly landlord to the men who live in a basement apartment in his home. He is a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, recognizable by the terrifying scar on 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: his devoted wife and rebellious daughter; his sometimes unsuspecting, sometimes apprehensive neighbors, tenants, and clients. And we meet some of his victims." "In the book's powerful denouement, we return to the Haiti of the dew breaker's past, to his last, desperate act of violence, and to his first encounter with the woman who will offer him a form of redemption - albeit imperfect - that will change him forever."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aHaiti$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105795
650 0 $aHaitian Americans$vFiction.
651 0 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101896
650 0 $aTorture$vFiction.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0410/2003060788.html
852 00 $bbar$hPS3554.A5815$iO96 2004
852 00 $bglx$hPS3554.A5815$iO96 2004