Behind the Mountains - Brossura

Danticat, Edwidge

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ISBN 10: 043937300X ISBN 13: 9780439373005

Casa editrice: Scholastic, 2004

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Having left war-torn Haiti for a new life with her father in New York, Celiane finds her new environment shocking as she witnesses her parents struggle to make money, faces acts of violence at school, and learns to cope with the major adjustments of living in a place so different from her native home. Original.

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L'autore:

Edwidge Danticat was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, until she was twelve years old, when she moved to the United States to be reunited with her family. She published her first pieces of literary work just two years later. She has written many award-winning books, including BREATH, EYES, MEMORY, a member of Oprah's Book Club; KRIK? KRAK!, a National Book Award Nominee; THE FARMING OF BONES, an American Book Award Winner; and BROTHER, I'M DYING, a National Book Critics Circle winner. She is a 2009 winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant. Edwidge lives with her family in Miami, Florida.

Product Description:

Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.

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