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Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.A5815 K75 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haitian Americans--Fiction.
- Haitian Americans.
- Haiti--Fiction.
- Haiti.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1946- (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 224 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Soho Press, [1995].
- Summary:
- Nine powerful stories about life under Haiti's dictatorships: the terrorism of the Tonton Macoutes; the slaughtering of hope and the resiliency of love; about those who fled to America to give their children a better life and those who stayed behind in the villages; about the linkages of generations of women through the magical tradition of storytelling.
- Contents:
- Children of the Sea
- Nineteen Thirty-Seven
- A Wall of Fire Rising
- Night Women
- Between the Pool and the Gardenias
- The Missing Peace
- Seeing Things Simply
- New York Day Woman
- Caroline's Wedding
- Epilogue: Women Like Us.
- Notes:
- "Jacket design: Royce M. Becker."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has autograph of Edwidge Dantikat.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1569470251 :
- OCLC:
- 31606521
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