Literary fiction about a young Haitian woman caught up in the chaos, racial hatred and fear of the Dominican Republic in 1937. Recently chosen by Oprah Winfrey as one of her "Book Club" titles. "A powerful, haunting novel." "Time".

Literary fiction about a young Haitian woman caught up in the chaos, racial hatred and fear of the Dominican Republic in 1937. Recently chosen by Oprah Winfrey as one of her "Book Club" titles. "A powerful, haunting novel." "Time".

Edwidge Danticat is the author of a novel, BREATH, EYES, MEMORY, and a collection of interlinked stories, KRIK? KRAK!, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in the US. She was also one of GRANTA's Best Young American Novelists.

Extraordinary TIME OUT Danticat delicately tiptoes through bougainvillaea and butterflies into minefields of rape, mayhem, insanity, suicide, terror. Fay Weldon, MAIL ON SUNDAY A first novel of precocious maturity INDEPENDENT A writer of great force with still more potential INDEPENDENT