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Synopsis
Set in the 18th century, this novel follows Rohini and Vidia, growing up in an Indian village, before being seduced by tales of Plantation Albion. There they find they have been sold into slavery. Having abandoned their families and their culture, they must now learn how to live with themselves.
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About the Author
David Dabydeen is the director of the Center for Caribbean Studies and a professor at the Center for British Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick. He is also Guyana's ambassador-at-large and a member of UNESCO's executive board. He is the author of A Harlot's Progress and Turner, and the poetry collection Slave Song, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
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"The best of the younger generation of Caribbean novelists, writing powerfully of the immigrant experience." —Penelope Lively, author, Moon Tiger
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0099732211
- ISBN 13 9780099732211
- BindingPaperback
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