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Dog War
After Precious Higginson's husband suddenly passes away, she is forced to move in with her son, then her daughter, and on from there, always finding herself in one insulting situation after another.
The Lunatic
Aloysius is de gek van het dorp, maar kan heel goed met planten en dieren omgaan. Wanneer een Duitse fotografe komt om de flora en fauna te fotograferen ontstaat er zelfs een soort van liefde.
Out of Order!
This book offers a preliminary overview of writing by white West Indians, identifying stereotypes and relating Anthony C. Winkler's books to prevalent trends demonstrated by other white West Indians.
The Duppy
Baps, a Jamaican shopkeeper, drops dead unexpectedly one Saturday morning and finds himself being transported to heaven via a crowded minibus. To enter heaven, he discovers he must crawl through a culvert in a cane field. Everything that he has been taught to expect about Paradise he now finds is utterly and completely wrong.
The Family Mansion
A darkly comic novel of an Englishman in nineteenth-century Jamaica: "A powerful and deeply moving tour de force" ( Library Journal). The Family Mansion tells the story of Hartley Fudges, whose personal destiny unfolds against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Britain, a time when English society was based upon the strictest subordination and stratification of the classes. Hartley's decision to migrate to Jamaica at the age of twenty-three seems sensible at first: in the early 1800s Jamaica was far and away the richest and most opulent of all the crown colonies. But for all its fabulous wealth, Jamaica was a difficult and inhospitable place for an immigrant. Aside from violent slave revolts...
The Failure
Guy Forget is a 20-something drifter with brains, good looks and absolutely no ambition except to get rich without having to work. His best friend, Billy, is a professional dog walker who ties dogs to the rear bumper of his car and drives very slowly. The Failure is a fairly straightforward story, but the manner of its recollection is anything but. It begins at the end and proceeds in similarly non-linear fashion to a conclusion that will surprise everyone.
The Gospel According to Cane
Twenty years after her son's abduction, Beverley Cottrell begins piecing her life together teaching literature to London's disadvantaged youth, until a young man claiming to be her son appears.
Bob Marley, My Son
In this revealing and poignant account of the life of her son, reggae icon Bob Marley (1945–1980), Mother Cedella Marley Booker traces the unique history of Bob Marley and his contribution to popular music as only a parent could. Booker recalls her poor rural upbringing in the district of Nine Miles in Jamaica, her parents’ relationship, and her courtship with Captain Marley, the white man forty years her senior who turned up one day in her father’s fields and took Cedella to his bed when she was just sixteen. Their child was Bob Marley, who would introduce the world to reggae, and whose talent would later transform the course of popular music with such classics as “Get Up, Stand Up,...
