description: Best-selling, American Book Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat—a two-time selectee of Oprah’s Book Club®—delivers a powerful tale of facing the past and making the decisions and sacrifices that shape the future. In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the “dew breaker” was a torturer. Now a fixture in Brooklyn, he maintains a quiet life as a husband and father. His terrible deeds lie buried. As we meet his family, neighbors, and even his victims, his story becomes one of rebellion and reconciliation.
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: Recorded Books