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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-10: 037570504X
ISBN-13: 9780375705045
Buy.com Sku: 30366551
Publish Date: 5/1/1998
Pages:
256
Edition Number:
2
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A flattened and drying daffodil was dangling off the little card that I had made my aunt Atie for Mother's Day. (from the first line)
| At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets 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 a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people. |
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At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haitis women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets 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 a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.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.At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets 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 a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people. |
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This is the story of Sophie Caco, the daughter of a Haitian exile, conceived in an act of violence. When Sophie is 12, her mother--who had abandoned her--asks the girl to join her in New York.
This is the story of Sophie Caco, the daughter of a Haitian exile, conceived in an act of violence. When Sophie is 12, her mother--who had abandoned her--asks the girl to join her in New York.
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"Written in prose as clear as a bell, magical as a butterfly, and resonant as drum talk...An impressive debut." - Julia Alvarez Washington Post Book World
"A novel that rewards the reader again and again with small but exquisite and unforgettable epiphanies." - Bob Shacochis Book Jacket
"Her story gives voice, depth and anguish to the loving, bittersweet ties that bind her to her circle of women...a rich portrait of a lush countryside." - Boston Globe
"Written in prose as clear as a bell, magical as a butterfly, and resonant as drum talk...An impressive debut." - Julia Alvarez Washington Post Book World
"A novel that rewards the reader again and again with small but exquisite and unforgettable epiphanies." - Bob Shacochis Book Jacket
"Her story gives voice, depth and anguish to the loving, bittersweet ties that bind her to her circle of women...a rich portrait of a lush countryside." - Boston Globe
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