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The dew breaker

A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continues to haunt him.

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  • "A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continues to haunt him."@en
  • "A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continues to haunt him."
  • "Een uit Haïti naar New York gevlucht gezin moet harde waarheden onder ogen zien over hun verleden."
  • "In this series of interconnected short stories, the central character starts as an elderly barber in Brooklyn, living with his devoted wife and father to a rebellious daughter. As his past unfolds, his 1960s Haitian background becomes darker -- he was once a "dew breaker," a government torturer whose accomplices and victims speak out in other stories."@en
  • "In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer. Now an American and a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, he maintains a quiet life as a husband and father. His terrible deeds lie buried. As we meet his family, neighbors, and even his past victims, his story becomes one of reconciliation and rebellion. And as we return one final time to his turbulent past, we witness his last violent act, and his first encounter with the woman who offers him a chance for salvation."
  • "Histoire d'un des briseurs de rosée, ces inconnus qui, au petit matin, à Haïti, emmenaient des hommes pour les torturer. Désormais coiffeur à Brooklyn, c'est un homme tranquille, marié et père d'une jeune artiste branchée. Il loge également trois travailleurs originaires de Haïti. Mais dans le voisinage, il est connu car tout le monde pense le reconnaître à sa cicatrice qui lui barre le visage."
  • "The Dew Breaker, who arrived in the morning when the dew was still fresh, refers to the men who were members of the Tontons Macoute, Haiti's former enforcers and torturers during Francois Duvalier's tyrannical regime in Haiti. The Dew Breaker now lives as an immigrant in New York City, a devoted husband and father. His former career has left scarred lives and families in his wake. Edwidge Danticat's novel moves back and forth between 1960s Haiti and present day New York City, and tells not just his story, and the unravelling of his past to his own daughter, but the stories of many of his victims too. These detail the horror that ripped through their lives, as well as the guilt and shame the Dew Breaker keeps as his secret..."
  • "Story of a man known as a "dew breaker," a Haitian torturer, whose past crimes lie beneath his new American reality."@en
  • "Story of a man known as a "dew breaker," a Haitian torturer, whose past crimes lie beneath his new American reality."

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  • "Translations"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Short stories"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Der verlorene Vater Roman"
  • "The Dew breaker"
  • "Le briseur de rosée : roman"
  • "Il profumo della rugiada all'alba"
  • "Il profumo della rugiada all'alba"@it
  • "Zhālih kush = The dew breaker"
  • "Le briseur de rosée"
  • "The dew breaker"
  • "The dew breaker"@en
  • "Der verlorene Vater"
  • "The Dew Breaker"@en
  • "The Dew Breaker"
  • "Dew Breaker"@en
  • "De dauwbreker"

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