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Original Title:	Krik? Krak!
ISBN:	067976657X (ISBN13: 9780679766575)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1995)

Krik? Krak!

Edwidge Danticat

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 7127 Users | 610 Reviews

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At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new writers. She is an artist who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage.

When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the reader with its sheer beauty.

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Title	:	Krik? Krak!
Author	:	Edwidge Danticat
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	April 2nd 1996 by Vintage (first published April 1st 1996)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature

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In addition to 2017's Book Riot challenge, I have a soft goal of working on my existing read around the world list. This is my choice for Haiti.Each story left me wanting to know more; each was connected by the bones of one another, through families and history and blood. The first story was my favorite, if not the most arresting (that way lies with Between the Pool and the Gardenias, a dead baby and a delusional woman). Children of the Sea is a back and forth story between a young man and

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.- Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!This selection of short stories was absolutely amazing. Heartbreaking, but brilliant. We see Haiti through different eyes, each pair experiencing a lot of pain and loss. Even with the knowledge that I have of Haitis horrific history, what Danticat wrote (using vignettes told

Whenever I read stories from Haiti, I learn a little bit more. No, I don't think I'll ever fully understand the country's history or its people's lives, but I love that I get to know it a little. This collection is beautiful, even when the stories are anything but. Krik? Krak! is some poetic justice for the people of Haiti. Love this!!

Beloved Haiti, there is no place like you. I had to leave you before I could understand you.KRIK? KRAK! by Edwidge Danticat is a collection of short stories and the first one (Children of The Sea) blew me away. Her writing is dynamic and lyrical, at times a dreamlike fervor. Reading further, I enjoyed and understood some stories more than others but started noticing how they were connected by referencing the same incident or having recurring characters. The stories informed and enriched each

Danticat offers a beautiful rendering of Haitian life, in a novel that utterly evokes the many shades of suffering. Tears, the author demonstrates, are life. Tears are words. Tears heal the pains of the past. Stylistically, I feel that Danticat implemented a structure that absolutely suits her writing--there are separate strands of stories, implying the individuality of angst and emotion; yet these parts are unified by being braided together by the commonality of vibrant Haitian culture and

Everyone knows what the baseline reader is. The body is abstract, the habits of the norm, the names of a conventional origin, the hierarchy unquestioned. To get a hint of the opposite, look at which covers are commissioned for thematic design and which consist of bodies and cultural artifacts. You'll learn about the blackened butterfly of this cover through one of the stories, as well as about the lives of the women that fit the archetype of my alternative cover that the digitized edition does

The most beautiful and moving stories I've ever read. They are about Haiti.