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Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat.

Van Pelt Library PS3554.A5815 K75 1995
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LIBRA - Rare PS3554.A5815 K75 1995 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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