Caribbean Modern Classics – serie
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Room on the Hill
Häftad, 2012
126 kr
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On an inward-looking island dominated by the Catholic Church, John Lestrade mourns both the death of friends and the inauthentic, suffocating quality of his own life. When he feels he can no longer find solace in his regular means of escape--a room on a hill--he forsakes his self-imposed exile and …
Children of Sisyphus
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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Dinah is a prostitute who lives with a Rastafarian fisherman on the Dungle, the rubbish heap where the very poorist squat. She refuses to accept his passivity and patriarchal attitudes and leaves him. But she is no more satisfied by the secure life she takes up with Alphanso, a dull police …
Hills Were Joyful Together
A Big Jubilee Read featured title
Av Roger Mais
Häftad, 2016
175 kr
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This novel, set in a yard which is a microcosm of Kingston slum life, sets out as Mais himself said to give "a true picture of the real Jamaica and the dreadful condition of the working classes."
Morning at the Office
Häftad, 2010
152 kr
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Exploring the complicated landscape of human interaction within the walls of the offices of Essential Products Ltd., this serious yet comedic novel offers a glimpse into 1940s Trinidad. Against the backdrop of the often hierarchical and always complex office space, characters negotiate issues of …
Of Age and Innocence
Häftad, 2011
215 kr
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An insightful exploration of the nature of race and ethnicity in colonial and postcolonial Caribbean societies, this tale follows the charismatic Isaac Shepherd, who returns to the island of San Cristobal to lead an independence movement that unites the island's diverse groups against the colonial …
While Gods Are Falling
Häftad, 2011
152 kr
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Exposing the political and cultural failure to address the challenges of postcolonial Trinidad, this insightful novel portrays a world where the working man must face the crime and violence that is destroying the social body. Walter Castle is dissatisfied with his regular job in the Laventille slum …
Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of Rainmakers
Häftad, 2014
126 kr
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In 1970 and 1971, Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean. These are brought together in the current volume.
Hurricane
Häftad, 2011
97 kr
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A lively illustrated masterpiece, this is the gripping story of a natural disaster and the 13-year-old Kingston boy who lives to tell the tale. While holed up in their home, Joe Brown, his sister Mary, and their parents wait for the eye of the hurricane to pass over their home. Outside, a …
My Bones and My Flute
A Ghost Story in the Old-Fashioned Manner
Häftad, 2015
152 kr
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A haunting ghost story by the 'first West Indian novelist', Edgar Mittelholzer. Only when he is on board the steamer halfway to their remote destination up river in Guyana does Milton Woodsley realise that there is more to Henry Nevinson’s invitation to spend time with his family in their jungle …
Song for Mumu
Häftad, 2026
175 kr
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Song for Mumu is a haunting, poetic debut from Jamaican-born writer Lindsay Barrett—an allegorical tale of desire, love, and loss set on an unnamed Caribbean island. Written across cities - Frankfurt, Paris, Accra - during Barrett’s early years of creative exile, the novel is rich with the rhythms …
Die the Long Day
Häftad, 2026
215 kr
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Written by the New York Times, on publication of Die the Long Day: Institutions, in West Indian society, were created by slavery and colonialism, for a small elite. When a new Elite, however, began to emerge, the peasant majority began to understand their former white rulers through the black …
New Day
Av V. S. Reid
Häftad, 2016
188 kr
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Told through the memories of John Campbell, an old man whose life goes back to the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865, this novel is a vivid narrative of the history of Jamaican nationalism. In the present, John Campbell's grandnephew Garth listens eagerly to the old man's story, gathering information …
Escape to An Autumn Pavement
Häftad, 2009
136 kr
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A brave and pioneering treatment of sexual identity in Caribbean literature, this novel, first published in 1960, follows the fortunes of Johnnie Sobert, a Jamaican exile who works in London at a club that caters to black American servicemen. In flight from his dominant, possessive mother, he …
Black Lightning
Av Roger Mais
Häftad, 2014
122 kr
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An iconic novel from a rebellious and politically active author, this story follows Jack, a sculptor and blacksmith, who idolizes the Biblical Samson as a figure of man's independence. Deciding to carve a mahogany tribute to Samson, however, becomes a more complicated affair when Jack's wife leaves …
Flying Fish Whispered
Av Elma Napier
Häftad, 2011
136 kr
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What begins as a romantic tryst in a tropical setting quickly becomes, in this novel first published in 1938, an imaginative exploration of two opposing cultural and economic frameworks in the Caribbean--the dichotomy between the peasant plot, where cultivation and nature mingle, and the estate …
Absence of Ruins
Häftad, 2012
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Originally published in 1967, "An Absence of Ruins" is a poignant portrayal of a man shaped by the colonial education of the Caribbean intellectual class. Orlando Patterson offers a devastating critique of middle-class intellectualism through the self-condemning perceptions of the main character, …
Corentyne Thunder
Häftad, 2009
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First published in 1941, this vivid and poetic family saga was the first modern novel to focus on the lives of immigrants from India in the British Caribbean colonies. Set on the coast of British Guiana, the story spans three generations and revolves around Ramgollal, an old Indian cow-minder on …
Last Enchantment
Häftad, 2009
139 kr
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Newly available after 40 years, this partly autobiographical love affair with the Jamaican language and landscape gives a penetrating look at the racial politics of the 1950s and 1960s and the search for self in a world divided by class. Ramsay Tull is witness to the black racial discontents and …
Water With Berries
Häftad, 2016
165 kr
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This novel is a powerful study of the impossibility of disentangling British and Caribbean lives, the unacknowledged power of history, the nature of misogyny, and the conflict between the calls of art and revolution.
Una Marson: Selected Poems
Av Una Marson
Häftad, 2011
149 kr
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Presenting some of the most noteworthy pieces from a remarkably influential West Indian poet, this anthology sheds light on the lesser-known literary accomplishments of Una Marson. Revealing the work of a woman whose writing pioneered the articulation of gender and racial oppression, brought …
Nor Any Country
Häftad, 2013
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After years in Europe Peter returns unexpectedly to his West Indian home to renew contacts with people from his past.: former lovers, schoolmates, and teachers - his mother and the wife he had more or less abandoned. The island has changed with it: not always for the better.
Ascent to Omai
Häftad, 2018
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In Ascent to Omai time and space are truly elastic, so that events in recent time become part of remote geological time and the boundaries between events and remembering, individual persons and different locations are fluid and permeable. Victor is in search of his father, Adam, once a …
My Strangled City
and other essays
Häftad, 2019
246 kr
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Gordon Rohlehr’s critical work is outstanding in the balance it achieves between its particularity and its breadth – from the detailed unpacking of a poem’s inner workings, to locating Caribbean writing in the sweep of political and cultural history – and the equal respect he pays to literary and …
Colour of Forgetting
Häftad, 2023
157 kr
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Set on the Caribbean island of Paz (not a million miles from Grenada), this is a book that creates a space between epic poetry and the novel in the way its sequence of interludes bring into focus the lives of family and community through time – and in the confinements of space. It moves from the …
