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SALT
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| By: |
Earl Lovelace |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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£2.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571192947 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571192946 |
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| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1998 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
After 19 years of teaching his pupils to emigrate, Alford George, elitist schoolteacher turned populist politician, is forced to work out a welcome for the diverse races of Trinidad to their own island and how to liberate those who, despite emancipation, are still struggling under old captivities. |
| Synopsis: |
Set in Trinidad, the story is launched by the mythical tale of Guinea John, an ancestor of Blackpeople, who put two corn cobs under his arm pits and flew from a clifftop, away from the scene of his enslavement, back to Africa. His descendants have eaten salt, grown too heavy to fly, and cannot follow him. They are left to wrestle with their future on the island. Now, more than one hundred years after "Emancipation, " like all the people who share the island - Asians, Africans, and Europeans - they need to be weaned from old captivities and welcomed into the New World. Addressing the challenge of this liberating welcome are Alford George, schoolteacher turned politician; Bango Durity, laborer and activist; and a swirl of unforgettable men and women - minor characters of major proportions - telling their stories in their own voices; all striving with passion and wit to make sense of their lives in the still-young country where the roles of enslaved and landowner still linger, but "the sky, the sea, every green leaf and tangle of vines sing freedom." |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1997
Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Caribbean and Canada 1997
Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 1997
Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1998
Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1998 |
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