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Books by Edwidge Danticat
  | | Lysistrata(Reprint) (Signet Classics) von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 336 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Soho Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61695-349-2, ISBN: 1-61695-349-7 "Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache In einem Dorf in der Dominikanischen Republik der 30er Jahre ertönt der Schrei einer Frau, die in den Wehen liegt, wie ein Schuss, der über die gesamte Insel Hispaniola zu hören ist. Jedes Detail der Geburtsszene -- das Machtverhältnis zwischen der Señora und ihrem haitianischen Dienstmädchen, die Hautfarbe der Neugeborenen und nicht zuletzt, welches Kind überleben wird -- hallt durch Edwidge Danti ..." |
 | | Brother, I'm Dying(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 288 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3430-7, ISBN: 1-4000-3430-2 "Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyA National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookFrom the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New York City. ..." |
 | | The Dew Breaker(Reprint) von Edwidge Danticat, Danticat Edwige Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3429-1, ISBN: 1-4000-3429-9 "In her third novel, The Dew Breaker, the prolific Edwidge Danticat spins a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant to the U.S. who reveals to his artist daughter that he is not, as she believes, a prison escapee, but a former prison guard, skilled in torture and the other violent control methods of a brutal regime. "Your father was the hunter," he confesses, "he was not the prey." Into this bri ..." |
 | | Everything Inside Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Vintage Jul 2020 ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56305-1, ISBN: 0-525-56305-9 |
 | | Breath, Eyes, Memory(20th Edition) von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 272 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2015 von Soho Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61695-502-1, ISBN: 1-61695-502-3 "Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to." The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat's novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Like her protagonist, Danticat is also Hai ..." |
 | | Claire of the Sea Light(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-47227-4, ISBN: 0-307-47227-2 "A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, an NPR "Great Read," a Christian Science MonitorBest Fiction Book, and a Library Journal Top Book Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limye Lanme Claire of the Sea Light suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memo ..." |
 | | Create Dangerously(1st Edition) The Immigrant Artist at Work (Vintage Contemporaries) von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 208 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94643-0, ISBN: 0-307-94643-6 "A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearIn this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and e ..." |
 | | Claire of the Sea Light(1st Edition) von Edwidge Danticat Hardcover, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27179-2, ISBN: 0-307-27179-X "From the best-selling author of Brother, I’m Dying and The Dew Breaker: a stunning new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing. Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—is an enchanting child born into love and tragedy in Ville Rose, Haiti. Claire’s mother died in childbirth, and on each of her birthdays Claire is taken by ..." |
 | | The Dew Breaker(1st Edition) von Edwidge Danticat Hardcover, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4114-5, ISBN: 1-4000-4114-7 "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 ..." |
 | | Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club) von Edwidge Danticat, Mark Frost Paperback, 234 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70504-5, ISBN: 0-375-70504-X "Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to." The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat's novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Like her protagonist, Danticat is als ..." |
 | | Krik? Krak!(Reprint) von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1996 von Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76657-5, ISBN: 0-679-76657-X " 著者は1969年生まれのハイチ系アメリカ人女性作家。本書収録の10の短篇はすべてハイチを舞台に、あるいはアメリカのハイチ移民を主人公にしている。独立以来現在まで続くハイチの不安定な政情やそれに伴う貧困を背景にした、悲しい物語が多い。 特に前半には衝撃的な作品が続く。「海に眠る子供たち」は、アメリカ行きの船の中の少年とハイチに残った少女が、決して相手に届くことのない内的な想いを言葉にして、身辺で起きたできごとや相手への恋心をあたかも文通のように交互につづる。「火柱」は3人家族の物語。貧しさにあって誇りを保てず苦しむ夫と、学校の芝居でハイチの伝説の英雄を演じることになり張り切る息子と、やさしい妻であり強い母である女性。3人におとずれる束の間の平和と悲しい結末。そして、本書中最もショッキングな作品ともいえる「ローズ」は、可愛らしい捨て子を見つけ、持ち帰ってローズと名づけ慈しむ、ある家政婦の物語だ。 平和な雰囲気をたたえた作品もある。「夜の女」は幼子のいる娼 ..." |
 | | A Small Place von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 264 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2015 von Soho Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61695-700-1, ISBN: 1-61695-700-X "Edwidge Danticat's only short story collection. Gorgeous 20th anniversary edition complete with a new story! Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel ("Breath, Eyes, Memory") alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat's reputation as a remarkably gifted writer. Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling ..." |
 | | The Farming of Bones(Reprint) von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 312 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028049-4, ISBN: 0-14-028049-9 "Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache In einem Dorf in der Dominikanischen Republik der 30er Jahre ertönt der Schrei einer Frau, die in den Wehen liegt, wie ein Schuss, der über die gesamte Insel Hispaniola zu hören ist. Jedes Detail der Geburtsszene -- das Machtverhältnis zwischen der Señora und ihrem haitianischen Dienstmädchen, die Hautfarbe der Neugeborenen und nicht zuletzt, welches Kind überleben wird -- hallt durch Edwidge Danti ..." |
 | | The Best American Essays 2011(1st Edition) (The Best American Series ) von Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan Paperback, 272 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-547-47977-4, ISBN: 0-547-47977-8 "The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the mo ..." |
 | | The Art of Death Writing the Final Story von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-777-1, ISBN: 1-55597-777-4 "A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. “Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses,” Danticat notes in her intr ..." |
 | | After the Dance(Updated) A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti von Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 158 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Vintage Books Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-09-946465-5, ISBN: 0-09-946465-9 "In After the Dance, one of Haiti's most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of imme ..." |
 | | Krik? Krak!(1st Edition) von Edwidge Danticat Hardcover, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Soho Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-025-1, ISBN: 1-56947-025-1 "Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat's reputation as a remarkably gifted writer. Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling to survive under the brutal Duvalier regime, Danticat illuminates the distance between people's desires and th ..." |
 | | THE FARMING OF BONES.(1st Edition) von Edwidge Danticat, D. E. Kilgore Hardcover, 312 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Soho Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-126-5, ISBN: 1-56947-126-6 "Orphaned narrator Amabelle Désir works as a housemaid for a powerful military man who becomes her enemy, and her best and only childhood friend Valencia--his wife. Amabelle is Haitian, working by force of necessity in the Dominican Republic, and in love with Sebastian Onius, a migrant Haitain "farmer of bones" (cane-cutter) and vanquisher of the nightmares that drag her into the land of the dead. Cut off from her family and homel ..." |
 | | After the Dance(1st Edition) A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Crown Journeys) von Edwidge Danticat Hardcover, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2002 von Crown ISBN-13: 978-0-609-60908-8, ISBN: 0-609-60908-4 "In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart.Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immen ..." |
 | | First Person Fiction(1st Edition) von Edwidge Danticat Hardcover, 176 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2002 von Scholastic ISBN-13: 978-0-439-37299-2, ISBN: 0-439-37299-2 "First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. In "Behind the Mountains" Edwidge Danticat tells the story of Celiane and her family's struggles in Haiti and New York.It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at her country with new eyes, Celiane gain ..." |
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