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Jennifer Rahim explores the power of the imagination to confront the restrictions of the year of the pandemic through reflections on history and the capacity of language to give... Læs mere
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Glory Dead is a beautifully written account of the visit of a young English communist to Trinidad in 1938 to investigate social conditions and meet the radicals who were challenging British colonial government. This title is part of the Caribbean Modern Classics Series.
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The effects of historical tensions, class and climate change are laid bare in little-known Bermuda, bringing the islands to vivid life in this rich and absorbing novel as five characters come together to keep a young Black girl from incarceration.
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unHistory is an essential record of our times by two world-leading poets, it is much more than that. It is an exploration of history's undertones, its personal, familial and institutional resonances and of the relationship between public events and the literary imagination.
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In this memoir, the celebrated novelist and retired teacher Barbara Jenkins writes with wit, vividness and insight of growing up in colonial Trinidad, a migrant life in Wales, and her return to Trinidad with her husband and first child in the post-independence era.
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J. Vijay Maharaj invents the hidden life of Leila Ramsumair, the mostly silent wife of the Ganesh Ramsumair, the protagonist of V.S. Naipaul's satire on Trinidadian Hinduism, The Mystic Masseur.
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Love the Dark Days follows the story of a girl, Poppet, of mixed middle-class Hindu and Elite Muslim parentage from post- independent India to her family's migration to post-colonial... Læs mere
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This long-acknowledged classic about Caribbean exiles torn between returning and staying is a powerful study of the impossibility of disentangling British and Caribbean lives, the... Læs mere
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The long-awaited debut of a seasoned poet that speaks to the splendid tensions and graces of an immigrant’s imagination and language, rooted in her Trinidad birthplace, and her... Læs mere
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This anthology creates a dichotomy between the comfortable and the mysterious, providing a glimpse into hidden worlds and human nature;... Læs mere
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Bagoo takes a long view of the short story and has a particular gift for stories made of stories. There is pathos here, and sometimes anger, but above all Bagoo is a very funny writer, his crystal-clear prose making the most of his dry, self-deprecating humour.
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In this narrative rooted in soil and spread by whispers, Nii Ayikwei Parkes brings a metaphor of resource-rich countries to vivid life in prose peppered with nods to fairy tales,... Læs mere