In the Castle of My Skin

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241296080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule. 'Rich and riotous' The Times 'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s

Natives of My Person

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.

The Emigrants

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people

Taína

Author: Ernesto Quiñonez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1984897489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina’s baby as a revolution in nature). After meeting Taína's uncle, "El Vejigante", an ex-con with a dark past, he accepts his proposal to support her during her pregnancy and becomes entangled in a web of crime that, while taking him closer to Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.

Season of Adventure

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Caribbean novelist George Lamming's classic novel of magic, politics, and cultural identity

Everything Inside

Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525521283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • "Unforgettable tales of families and lovers—from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond—often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.” —Vanity Fair • A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick! A romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences. A young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival. Two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives. A baby’s christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new. A man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose. Set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, here are eight emotionally absorbing stories, rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity. At once wide in scope and intimate, Everything Inside explores with quiet power and elegance the forces that pull us together or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant.

Castle of Lies

Author: Kiersi Burkhart
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN: 1541546814
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Thelia isn't in line to inherit the crown, but she's been raised to take power however she can. She's been friends with Princess Corene her whole life, and she's scheming to marry Bayled, the heir to the throne. But her plans must change when an army of elves invades the kingdom. Thelia, her cousin Parsifal, and Corene become trapped in the castle. An elf warrior, Sapphire, may be Thelia's only hope of escape, but Sapphire has plans of their own. Meanwhile, an ancient magic is awakening within the castle, with the power to destroy the whole kingdom. Can Thelia find a way to protect her future—and her life?

The Pleasures of Exile

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check

The Castle on Hester Street

Author: Linda Heller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689874340
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Julie's grandmother deflates many of her husband's tall tales about their journey from Russia to America and their life on Hester Street.