Edwidge Danticat
1) Krik? krak!
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Edwidge Danticat's only short story collection. Gorgeous 10th 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 to survive...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
186 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 223 pages ; 22 cm
Description
From the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying, a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart--a book rich with vividly imagined characters, hard-won wisdom, and humanity. In these eight stories by widely acclaimed, prizewinning author Danticat--some of which have appeared The New Yorker--a romance unexpectedly...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 272 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her 'second father' when she was placed in his care at age four when her parents left Haiti for America. So she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City, whom she struggles to remember--she has left behind Joseph and the only home she's ever known. The story of a new life in a new country while fearing for those still in Haiti soon...