Description
Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don't, and plenty of things that shouldn't happen do. For the story of Kaia leads back to another momentous day in Jamaican history, the birth of the Rastafari and the desire for a better life. Augustown is a novel about inequality and aspiration, memory and myth, and the connections between people which can transcend these things but not always change them. It is a window onto a moment in Jamaican history, when the people sought to rise up above their lives and shine.
| EAN: | 9781474603614 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 11.05.2017 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Autoren: | Miller, Kei |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 242 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Literary |
| Keyword: | The Last Warner Woman; BAME; Colson Whitehead; Reni Eddo-Lodge; diversity; Marlon James; poetry; The Same Earth; books set in Jamaica; books by Jamaican writers; Jamaican books; Forward Prize; The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion; The Fear of Stones; Rasta; Rastafarianism; Bob Marley; postcolonial literature; Caribbean Literature Prize; Ondaatje Prize; Jhalak prize; royal society of literature; Bedward; Black History Month; A Brief History of Seven Killings; The Color Purple; Joe Ide; IQ; Arundhati Roy; The Ministry of Utmost Happiness; The Underground Railroad; black writers; black writing; historical writing; prizewinning; Black History Month; books made into film |
| Fachschema: | Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Jamaica~Jamaika |
| Region: | Jamaika |
| Imprint-Titels: | Weidenfeld and Nicholson |
| Verkauf Verboten: | |
| Fachkategorie: | Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik |
| Text Sprache: | eng |
| Verlag: | Orion Publishing Group |
| Länge: | 195 mm |
| Breite: | 128 mm |
| Höhe: | 25 mm |
| Gewicht: | 243 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Herkunftsland: | GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB) |