The Dew Breaker (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edwidge Danticat
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Dictators, United States or Americans, Parents and children, New York City, Immigration or emigration, Fathers, Islands, Miracles, Torture, Haiti or Haitians
- Locales: New York, NY, Haiti
It is not entirely accurate to call The Dew Breaker a novel. It is really a collection of interrelated stories. Each story has its own plot, setting, and group of characters. Each story also sheds light on the main character of the novel, a mild-mannered Haitian American barber and family man who had been a “dew breaker,” or torturer, during the dictatorship of François Duvalier during the 1960's. (These torturers were known as “dew breakers” because they made their arrests very early in the morning, breaking the dew on the grass with their footsteps.)
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