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| Edition: | Soho Pr Inc (Hardcover) |
| Author: | Edwidge Danticat |
| Published: | July 2003 |
| Pages: | 236 |
| ISBN 10: | 1569471428 |
| New: | $14.05 (10) |
| Used: | $0.01 (57) |
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Breath, Eyes, Memory is Edwidge Danticat's acclaimed 1994 novel, and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club Selection in May 1998.
Plot introduction
Edwidge Danticat’s first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory was published when Danticat was only twenty-five years old. As she has recounted in interviews, the book began as an essay of her childhood in Haiti and her move as a young girl to New York City.
Major themes
The novel deals with questions of racial, linguistic and gender identity in interconnected ways.
