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Claire, som havets ljus
Inbunden, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
246 kr
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»En romanpärla alla borde få glädjen att läsa.« Yukiko Duke, Li Läser VILLE ROSE, HAITI Varje år går Claire med sin far till kyrkogården på sin födelsedag, som också är hennes mors dödsdag. Men dagen då hon fyller sju försvinner hon spårlöst från den lilla fiskestaden. Hon har fått veta att hennes …
Breath, Eyes, Memory (50th Anniversary Edition)
Häftad, 2023
131 kr
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Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, with new introduction from Booker Prize winner Bernardine EvaristoAt 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 …
Farming Of Bones
Häftad, 2000
156 kr
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It is 1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homeland. The Republic, under the iron rule of the Generalissimo, treats the Haitians as second-class citizens, and although Amabelle feels a strong …
Claire, som havets ljus
E-bok, 2018
129 kr
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VILLE ROSE, HAITI. Varje år går Claire med sin far till kyrkogården på sin födelsedag, som också är hennes mors dödsdag. Men dagen då hon fyller sju försvinner hon spårlöst från den lilla fiskestaden. Hon har fått veta att hennes far tänker lämna bort henne. I sökandet efter Claire sluter den lilla …
Claire of the Sea Light
Häftad, 2014
144 kr
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Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones to have experienced loss. As the poor townspeople search by moonlight for the seven-year-old girl, …
Dèy
Finalist for the National Book Awards
Inbunden, 2026
256 kr
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'Danticat has emerged as an essential American voice in the vein of Toni Morrison' New York Times'A story for our times' Financial Times'Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?'These questions haunt Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent in Miami, …
Att skörda ben
E-bok, 2020
79 kr
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Om boken:Dominikanska republiken, 1937. Amabelle är tjänsteflicka hos en förmögen familj på en sockerrörsplantage. Hon tog sig som ung över gränsen från Haiti för att få arbete, i likhet med många av sina landsmän. På gården har hon hittat en bra plats, och där har hon också träffat sin Sebastien, …
Everything Inside: Reese's Book Club
Stories
Häftad, 2020
277 kr
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • "Un forgettable tales of families and lovers—from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond—often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.” — Vanity Fair • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century A romance …
Everything Inside: Reese's Book Club
Stories
E-bok, 2019
189 kr
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I''m Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, …
Haiti Noir
E-bok, 2010
33 kr
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"A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island...The 36th entry in Akashic's Noir series (which ranges from Bronx to Delhi to Twin Cities) is beautifully edited, with a spectrum of voices."--Kirkus Reviews"This anthology will give American readers a complex and nuanced …
Haiti Noir 2
The Classics
E-bok, 2013
246 kr
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Edwidge Danticat's short story from Haiti Noir 2: The Classics, "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special," was included in Ms. Magazine's Fall 2013 issue."A worthy sequel that skillfully uses a popular genre to help us better understand an often frustratingly complex and indecipherable society."--Miami …
Brother, I'm Dying
E-bok, 2007
160 kr
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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 …
Dew Breaker
E-bok, 2007
205 kr
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We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, …
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Häftad, 1996
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
144 kr
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'A vision of female solidarity which transcends place and time' Sunday Times: Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut.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 …
Dew Breaker
Häftad, 2004
193 kr
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The dew breaker is a quiet man, a husband and father, a hard-working barber, a kindly landlord to the men living in a basement apartment in his home. He is a fixture in his Brooklyn neighbourhood, recognizable by the terrifying scar on his face. But beneath the surface of this American life lies a …
Breath, Eyes, Memory (50th Anniversary Edition)
E-bok, 2023
45 kr
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With new introduction from Booker-prize-winning Bernardine Evaristo ''A vision of female solidarity which transcends place and time'' Sunday Times Edwidge Danticat''s groundbreaking debut. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited …
Claire of the Sea Light
E-bok, 2013
189 kr
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From the best-selling author of Brother, I’m Dying and The Dew Breaker: a stunning new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing. Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—is an …
The Best American Essays 2011
Av Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
307 kr
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Dèy
A Novel
Inbunden, 1900
399 kr
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From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid, timely story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught in a random act of violence one sunny Florida day. “Is home the place where we are born? Or …
Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Inbunden, 2010
189 kr
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"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them."--Create Dangerously In this deeply personal …
Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Häftad, 2025
161 kr
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A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards—now with a new preface by the author"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've …
Plough Quarterly No. 20 - The Welcome Table
Av Edwidge Danticat, Sarah Ruden m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
102 kr
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Food – how it’s grown, how it’s shared – makes us who we are. This issue traces the connections between farm and food, between humus and human. According to the first book of the Bible, tending the earth was humankind’s first task: “The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he …
Walk Through Carnival
E-bok, 2016
16 kr
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A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection Growing up in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat kept well clear of carnival—terrified by the stories of danger and debauchery that her uncle told her. Decades later, a grown woman and accomplished author, she returns home to find out what she’s been missing. In this …
After The Dance
A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
E-bok, 2010
125 kr
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Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immense speakers, and being punched, stabbed, pummeled, or fondled by …
