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Alfred A. Knopf. Publication date. 2004. ISBN. 1-4000-3429-9. OCLC. 1014282481. The Dew Breaker is a collection of linked stories by Edwidge Danticat, published in 2004. The title comes from the Haitian Creole name for a torturer during the regimes of François "Papa Doc" and Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
The Book of the Dead is the name given to an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC. [ 1] ". Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts [ 2] consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's ...
Edwidge Danticat ( Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) [ 1] is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient ...
The Farming of Bones. Farming of Bones is a work of historical fiction by Edwidge Danticat, published in 1998. It tells the story of an orphaned young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic who gets caught up in the carnage of the Parsley massacre during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo .
The Book of the Dead is a long narrative poem written by Muriel Rukeyser, appearing in her collection US 1.Published in 1938, the poem deals with the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster, also known as the Gauley Tunnel Tragedy, in which predominately poor, migrant mine workers in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia succumbed to death caused by the occupational mining disease known as silicosis.
I am noble, I am a spirit [ akh ], I am equipped; O all you gods and all you spirits [ akhu ], prepare a path for me. — Book of the Dead, spell 9.[ 7] 10. Another spell for a man's going out into the day against his foes in the realm of the dead. [ 9] 11. Spell for going out against a foe in the realm of the dead.
Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 22. LC Class. PS3554.I259 B75 2007. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey in the United States, where Díaz was raised, and it deals with the Dominican Republic's experience under dictator Rafael ...
The Book of Giants is an apocryphal book which expands upon the Genesis narrative of the Hebrew Bible, in a similar manner to the Book of Enoch.Together with this latter work, The Book of Giants "stands as an attempt to explain how it was that wickedness had become so widespread and muscular before the flood; in so doing, it also supplies the reason why God was more than justified in sending ...