The Dew Breaker

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From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, memory and KrikKrak! (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.

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'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

Author Bio

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.