Claire of the Sea Light (Vintage Contemporaries) - Tapa blanda

"Fiercely beautiful. . . . Brims with enchantments and surprises." --Los Angeles Times

"Luminous. . . . Danticat's determination to face both light and dark brings the story to life. But her skill as a writer makes the balancing act a pure pleasure to read. . . . [She] is a beautiful storyteller." --The Miami Herald

"Danticat has created a pulsing world. . . . On these pages, the human heart is laid open and the secret contents of its chambers revealed in all their beauty and agony. . . . Haunting." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"Hypnotic. . . . Danticat creates rich and varied interior lives for her characters. . . . Heartbreaking." --The New York Times Book Review

"A revealing portrait that mixes a touch of magic with the tough reality of life in Haiti." --NPR

"Haunting. . . . Writing with lyrical economy and precision, Ms. Danticat recounts her characters' stories in crystalline prose that underscores the parallels in their lives." --The New York Times

"Vivid and intensely personal. . . . Danticat has been fixing and unfixing her native country since the appearance of her first book. . . . She is a writer . . . inhabited, a writer dedicated to opening her reader's eyes to something she keeps trying to see for herself." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The biggest questions of life flow from the pen of this brilliant novelist. In Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat folds the story into a package so preciously tight that we can tuck it in our hearts and keep it close and warm." --Nikki Giovanni

"[Has] the feel of a fairy tale. But its ethereal qualities are offset by its stark portrayal of life in small-town Haiti; the combination makes for a lovely book." -- New York magazine

"Danticat's language is unadorned, but she uses it to forge intricate connections. . . . The dexterity of her sympathy is an even match for her unflinching vision." --The Boston Globe

"In a voice tuned to the frequency of sorrow, with a calmness that neither apologizes nor inflames, [Danticat] lays out the terrible choice that many in Haiti have faced: Keep a child in deepest poverty or offer the child to someone with better prospects. . . . A remarkably well-plotted combination of mystery and social critique." --The Miami Herald

"Danticat has a way of making small lives tell big stories. . . . The stories of the inhabitants of Ville Rose fold into one another in surprising ways; social barriers exist but are constantly transgressed--sometimes violently, sometimes with compassion and mutual understanding." --Kaiama L. Glover, Public Books

"[An] extraordinary talent in full flower . . . . There's a Faulknerian quality to Claire of the Sea Light . . . showing how human stories and lives ramify through and across each other in ways both touching and tragic." --The Huffington Post

"Haunted by ghosts and grief, lifted by magic and love. . . . Danticat paints each of her characters and their town with vivid detail and lyrical language. . . . [Claire of the Sea Light] is lit with its own inextinguishable glow." --Tampa Bay Times

"It's the core human struggles that make it impossible to put the novel down. . . . [Danticat] brilliantly sheds light on an array of human issues with sexuality, identity, politics, class. . . . A heartfelt journey." --New York Daily News

"Beautiful. . . . As usual, Danticat's sentences are sedate, graceful and unpretentious." --The Dallas Morning News

"Masterful. . . . With Claire of the Sea Light, Danticat stuns us again." --Harvard Review