Krik? Krak!
When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge 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...
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When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679766575 (067976657X)
Publish date: April 2nd 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
African American,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Womens
“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...
Very good collection of short stories about the lives of Haitian women. I enjoyed all of them, but my favorite was a story about a woman who found the child she had always wanted.. or so she thought. Many of the women in these stories were greatly affected by the supernatural beliefs that were so in...
I was very impressed with the fluency of the poetic language. The best stories struck me as quite complex, ones such as "Children of the Sea", "The Missing Peace", or "Caroline's Wedding". The stories are a web of incantation and ritual, full of the importance of maintaining a connection to memories...
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