Krik? Krak!
$32.11
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2015
Summary
Edwidge Danticat’s only short story collection. Gorgeous 10th anniversary edition-complete with a new story!Discover the 20th Anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat’s unforgettable National Book Award Finalist story collection-complete with a new story.Arriving one year after the Haitian-American’s first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat’s reputation as a remarkably …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781616957001 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 161695700X |
| Author: | Edwidge Danticat |
| Publisher: | Soho Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Soho Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Edition: | 20th |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2015 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 210mm x 141mm |
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Praise for Krik? Krak!
National Book Award Finalist for Fiction
“Steeped in the myths and lore that sustained generations of Haitians, Krik? Krak! demonstrates the healing power of storytelling.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Virtually flawless … If the news from Haiti is too painful to read, read this book instead and understand the place more deeply than you ever thought possible.”
—Washington Post Book World
“The voices of Krik? Krak! … encapsulate whole lifetimes of experience. Harsh, passionate, lyrical.”
—The Seattle Times
“Steady-handed yet devastating … In Haiti, where politics are lethal and women are condemned to suffering and death by men who envy and fear their powers, hope does indeed seem ludicrous, but in Danticat’s fiction, mind and spirit soar above the pain and horrors of life.”
—Booklist
“Danticat beautifully balances the poverty, despair, and brutality her characters endure with magic and myth. For many characters, she also explores the inevitable clash between traditions of Haitian home life and a new American culture. Principally mothers and daughters confront each other in these cultural and intergenerational wars, wars that would be emotionally devastating were it not for the indomitable presence of love … Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal
“Spare, luminous stories that read like poems … [These] tales more than confirm the promise of her magical first novel. A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.”
—Paule Marshall, author of Daughters
About The Author
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, includingBrother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist;Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection;Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Dew Breaker, winner of the inaugural Story Prize; and The Farming of Bones, whichwon an American Book Award for fiction in 1999. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published inThe New Yorker,The New York Times, and elsewhere.
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