num_pages: 209
description: From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, memory and Krik?Krak! (both Opera's Book Club selections), a powerful new work of fiction that explores the trials and reconciliations in the life of a man known as a 'dew breaker,' a torturer, whose past crimes in the country of his birth, lie hidden beneath his new American relaity. In Haiti in the dictatorial 1960's, Manhattan in the 1970s, Brooklyn and Queens today, we meet the dew breaker's family, neighbours, and victims. An unforgettable, deeply resonant book - of love, remorse, history, and hope, of rebellions both personal and political - The Dew Breaker proves once more that in Edwidge Danticat we have a major American writer.
language: English
title: THE DEW BREAKER.
titlecomplete: THE DEW BREAKER.
genres: Fiction, Historical, Short Stories, School, Literature, Read For School, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7727
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Haiti
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: KNOPF.