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title: "The Dew Breaker Paperback – March 8, 2005"
brand: "edwidge danticat"
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# The Dew Breaker Paperback – March 8, 2005

**Brand:** edwidge danticat
**Price:** R492
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- **What is this?** The Dew Breaker Paperback – March 8, 2005 by edwidge danticat
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## Customer Reviews

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    A book about consequences and dysfunction
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 6, 2022*

From the evil and dysfunction of Haiti, this novel tells a story from the perspective of related characters derived from the crime or crimes committed by one man, an officer of the Haitian government who immigrates to the United States, New York, and with his wife, begin a new life, harboring his secret past. The structure of the novel is superbly handled, the story is well imagined, and the writing is tight and confident. A novel about the murderous actions of a single character and their consequences from an ensemble of related characters comes together nicely. Feelings of dread lingers after reading.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A fugitive-murderer seeks redemption in this troubling, heart-rending collection of Haitian dreams and nightmares
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2011*

The cycle of nine stories that make up "The Dew Breaker" revolves around the central character that haunts all of them: a loving father and husband living in New York who was once a member of the Tontons Macoute, paramilitary torturers during Francois Duvalier's despotic regime in Haiti. Only three of the stories deal directly with this man and his family, but the other six deal with his victims, their families, or their friends. Although I often feel that stories-as-a-novel (or fix-ups) are not convincing--the distraction of the seams can sometimes overpower the whole--this is an exception: if anything, the jigsaw-puzzle approach more powerfully shows how disparate lives have been shattered by one "evil" man.It's a heavy topic, and much of the book is melancholy and even gloomy--but Danticat is expert at throwing in both comic relief and the perfectly placed awkward moment. All nine stories are superb, but even so there are four the truly stand out. The opening story, "The Book of the Dead," describes a semi-vacation trip to Florida taken by the now-elderly man and his daughter, Ka, who has sold a sculpture based her father's image to a famous Haitian American actress. When the father (with the artwork) disappears, secrets are revealed, Ka's adoration of her father is tested, and the obligatory meeting with the actress is both uncomfortable and unforgettable. In "Seven," an immigrant living with two bachelors in a basement apartment gets ready to receive the wife he hasn't seen in seven years. (One of his initial concerns: his apartment-mates need to stop sitting around in their underwear.)My favorite section, "The Bridal Seamstress," features Aline, a young, idealistic journalism intern who interviews a woman who is about to retire from a career making bridal dresses for other Haitian immigrants ("they come here carrying photographs of tall, skinny girls in dresses that cost thousands of dollars. . . . It's part of my job to tell them, without making them cry, that they're too short, too wide, or too pregnant . . ."). The story turns darker when the older woman describes the new neighbor who, she claims, is the man who tortured her in Haiti. And, the longest and final story, "The Dew Breaker," takes us back to 1967, when the man who will be the cause of so many future nightmares conducts his last murderous assignment in Haiti, and then takes us forward to 2004, with the story of the woman who saved, forgave, and (if such a thing is possible) redeemed him.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
    La belleza
  
  

*by A***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2022*

Una novela extraordinaria: tanto el modo en que Danticat urde la trama como su lenguaje son ejemplares. Una visión de Haití y una época que sobrevive en nuestra memoria.

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