BROTHER, I’M DYING
Book ID/图书代码： 01200007B18139
English Summary/英文概要： From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart—her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for a better life in America. Listening to his sermons, sharing coconut-flavored ices on their walks through town, roaming through the house that held together many members of a colorful extended family, Edwidge grew profoundly attached to Joseph. He was the man who “knew all the verses for love.”
And so she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City. She is at last reunited with her two youngest brothers, and with her mother and father, whom she has struggled to remember. But she must also leave behind Joseph and the only home she’s ever known.
Edwidge tells of making a new life in a new country while fearing for the safety of those still in Haiti as the political situation deteriorates. But Brother I’m Dying soon becomes a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. Late in 2004, his life threatened by an angry mob, forced to flee his church, the frail, eighty-one-year-old Joseph makes his way to Miami, where he thinks he will be safe. Instead, he is detained by U.S. Customs, held by the Department of Homeland Security, brutally imprisoned, and dead within days. It was a story that made headlines around the world. His brother, Mira, will soon join him in death, but not before he holds hope in his arms: Edwidge’s firstborn, who will bear his name—and the family’s stories, both joyous and tragic—into the next generation.
Told with tremendous feeling, this is a true-life epic on an intimate scale: a deeply affecting story of home and family—of two men’s lives and deaths, and of a daughter’s great love for them both.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者Edwidge Danticat深獲美國文壇肯定，以感性的筆觸吐露個人家族的歷史背景，具體描訴歷經歷史動蕩與苦痛的海地，以及美國1915年介入海地政治局勢的經過和「911」攻擊後美國的移民政策。
海地的政治動蕩造成經濟上的衰退，Danticat的父母因此赴美維持家計，而Danticat和弟弟只能寄住在伯父Joseph家。1957年海地開始獨裁統治，對政治抱有熱情的Joseph失望之餘成為虔誠基督徒，在首都太子港的貧民區建立自己的教堂，設立學校，成為社區領袖。Danticat九歲時，Joseph因喉癌動手術切除患部，從此說話困難，由Danticat代為發言，終於到十二歲時，父母接她和弟弟到美國團聚，在美國成長。
2004年海地民兵誤認Joseph允許鎮暴警察由教堂屋頂射殺民眾，而放火燒掉教堂，並威脅將他殺害。高齡八十一歲始終不願離鄉的Joseph終於赴美，卻換來噩夢一場：他以觀光簽證入境，想延長停留時間，在邁阿密尋求暫時庇護，但遭移民局官員認定是想藉故居留。不久卻因病重轉送醫院，死時可能還戴著手銬。
Danticat動念回顧家族歷史，全因Joseph的猝死，以平靜的筆調訴說令人辛酸的血淚故事，混合了鄉愁與無家可歸的痛楚。
Awards/获奖情况：*此书获得2007年全美书评人奖National Book Critics Circle中的自传奖
* 纽约时报评出最值得关注的2007年100本书之一
* Amazon五颗星
About the Author/作者介绍： Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the first Story Prize. She lives in Miami with her husband and daughter.Edwidge Danticat，1994年的首部代表作Breath, Eyes, Memory，描述移民家庭的美國夢為故事背景而大放異彩。2004年以The Dew Breaker榮獲國家書卷獎。
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