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Eigentlich wollte sie bei der Reise in den Süden der USA ihrem Vater näherkommen und sich bedanken für all die Anregungen, die er ihr schenkte. Doch dann entdeckt die junge Künstlerin, dass ihr Vater keineswegs ein Opfer der Diktatur in Haiti war, sondern ein Folterer, der das Leben unzähliger Menschen zerstörte. Alles, worauf sie ihr Leben baute, bricht nun zusammen. Wie kann Vergebung gefunden werden?

Ein sehr poetisches Buch." Brigitte Claire verschwindet an ihrem siebten Geburtstag spurlos am Strand von Ville Rose auf Haiti. Ahnt sie, dass ihr Vater Nozias sie heute fortgeben will? Nach dem Tod von Claires Mutter kümmerte er sich allein um seine Tochter, doch dem armen Fischer fällt es immer schwerer, für ihren Unterhalt aufzukommen. Deshalb hofft er, dass Claire bei der reichen Tuchhändlerin Gaëlle ein besseres Leben hab wird. Aber Cl...

From a National Book Award nominee comes a timely, brilliantly crafted story of hope and imagination--a powerful tribute to Haiti and children around the world. While Junior is trapped for eight days beneath his collapsed house after an earthquake, he uses his imagination for comfort. Full color.

A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses, " Danticat notes in her introductio...

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A diverse group of Haitian townspeople are brought together in the search for a missing girl, in this "New York Times" bestseller from the award-winning author of "The Farming Of Bones".

A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, an NPR "Great Read, " a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book, and a Library Journal Top Book Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè-Claire of the Sea Light-suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memories...

The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materialsAt the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when sh...

A touching tale of parent-child separation and immigration, from a National Book Award finalistAfter Saya's mother is sent to an immigration detention center, Saya finds comfort in listening to her mother's warm greeting on their answering machine. To ease the distance between them while she's in jail, Mama begins sending Saya bedtime stories inspired by Haitian folklore on cassette tape. Moved by her mother's tales and her father's attempts t...

A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearIn this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University's Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, t...

As a child, acclaimed author Edwidge Danticat was terrified by Carnival festivities - until 2002, when she returned home to Haiti determined to understand the lure of this famed event. Here she chronicles her journey to the coastal town of Jacmel, where she met with the performers, artists, and organizers who re-create the myths and legends that bring the festival to life. In the process, Danticat traces the heroic and tragic history of the is...

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It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastien are separated, and she...

* Simultaneously haunting and horrific, this is an outstanding novel from a young writer of exceptional ability

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In five sections-Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Return, and Future-the thirty-three contributors to this anthology write movingly, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Their dyaspora, much like a butterfly's fluctuating path, is a shifting landscape in which there is much travel between two worlds, between their place of origin and their adopted land.This compilation of essays and poetry brings togethe...

An unforgettable novel that shimmers with the wonder and terror of its author's native Haiti. Set in the island's impoverished villages and in New York's Haitian community, this is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then summoned to America. In New York, Sophie discovers that Haiti imposes harsh rules on its own.

Edwidge Danticat was raised by two fathers--by her natural father and by his brother, her uncle Joseph, who became a surrogate father for eight years after her parents emigrated to America. Brother, I'm Dying is the story of her attachment to her uncle Joseph, and the wrenchingly complicated emotions she experienced when, at 12, she finally rejoined her parents. it's the story of adapting to a new life while continuing to fear for the safety o...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A National Book Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father, " when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New York City. As Ed...