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The Dew Breaker, March 2005
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THE DEW BREAKER
By: Edwidge Danticat

Vintage
March 2005
On Sale: March 8, 2005
256 pages
ISBN: 1400034299
EAN: 9781400034291
Paperback
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We meet him late in life: 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, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret. Edwidge Danticat’s brilliant exploration of the “dew breaker”--or torturer--s an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America’s most essential writers.

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PBS News Hour - October 22, 2010