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My Mommy Medicine (1998)
EN NWISBN: 9781250140913 bzw. 1250140919, in Englisch, Roaring Brook Press, neu.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, In Stock, plus shipping.
Edwidge Danticat, Books, My Mommy Medicine, Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to America at age twelve to live with her parents in Brooklyn. She studied French literature at Barnard College and received her M.F.A. from Brown University. Her work has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), her first novel and master's thesis, garnered Danticat a Granta Regional Award for Best Young American Novelist and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection, a singular honor. Her collection of short stories Krik? Krak! (1995) was nominated for the National Book Award. Along with awards for fiction from Seventeen and Essence and the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize, Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference, and by the New York Times Magazine as one of 30 Under 30 people to watch. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), concerns a massacre in Haiti in 1937.
Edwidge Danticat, Books, My Mommy Medicine, Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to America at age twelve to live with her parents in Brooklyn. She studied French literature at Barnard College and received her M.F.A. from Brown University. Her work has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), her first novel and master's thesis, garnered Danticat a Granta Regional Award for Best Young American Novelist and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection, a singular honor. Her collection of short stories Krik? Krak! (1995) was nominated for the National Book Award. Along with awards for fiction from Seventeen and Essence and the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize, Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference, and by the New York Times Magazine as one of 30 Under 30 people to watch. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), concerns a massacre in Haiti in 1937.
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Everything Inside: Stories (2019)
~EN PB NWISBN: 9780525563051 bzw. 0525563059, vermutlich in Englisch, VINTAGE, Taschenbuch, neu.
Everything Inside: Stories: WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2020 VILCEK PRIZE IN LITERATURENATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNamed a Best Book of 2019 by NPR, Time, BuzzFeed, and EsquireFrom 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, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores the forces that pull us together, or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant.In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives a baby`s christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose.This is the indelible work of a keen observer of the human heart--a master at her best. Englisch, Taschenbuch.
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Everything Inside: Stories (2019)
~EN NWISBN: 9780525563051 bzw. 0525563059, vermutlich in Englisch, E. P. Dutton, United States of America, neu.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, plus shipping.
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2020 VILCEK PRIZE IN LITERATURE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR, Time, BuzzFeed, and Esquire 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, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores the forces that pull us together, or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant. In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby''s christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose. This is the indelible work of a keen observer of the human heart--a master at her best.
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2020 VILCEK PRIZE IN LITERATURE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR, Time, BuzzFeed, and Esquire 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, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores the forces that pull us together, or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant. In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby''s christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose. This is the indelible work of a keen observer of the human heart--a master at her best.
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Everything Inside Edwidge Danticat Author (2019)
~EN PB NWISBN: 9780525563051 bzw. 0525563059, vermutlich in Englisch, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Taschenbuch, neu.
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