Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Publisher:
- Soho Press, 02/2015
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781616955021
- Item number:
- 5349508
- Volume:
- 288 Pages
- Weight:
- 244 g
- Format:
- 208 x 139 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 24.2.2015
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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 materials
At 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 she returns to Haiti-to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti-and the enduring strength of Haiti's women-with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage.
Biography
Edwidge Danticat, 1969 in Port-au-Prince geboren, folgte ihren Eltern mit zwölf Jahren in die USA. Sie gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Stimmen der karibisch-amerikanischen Literatur. Danticat erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, darunter den American Book Award und den LiBeraturpreis. Sie lebt in New York.
