num_pages: 256
description: 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—is 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.
language: English
title: The Dew Breaker
titlecomplete: The Dew Breaker
genres: Read For School, Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 7726
places: Haiti, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: The Story Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage