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Book by Dabydeen, David
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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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"Painfully beautiful and true." —Maya Angelou
"Utterly serious, painfully honest and combining, with some originality, the light and the dark, the sweet and the bitter." —Anita Desai, author, The Clear Light of Day
"We badly need novels about the immigrant experience in Britain and this is the best I've read for a long time—vivid, perceptive, funny and moving." —Penelope Lively, author, The Photograph
"Essential reading. [Dabydeen] narrates his painful story with a deft and often humorous touch, and provides us with some startling insights into poverty-stricken Guyana and multi-cultural London." —Caryl Phillips, author, A Distant Shore
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- PublisherMinerva
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0749398507
- ISBN 13 9780749398507
- BindingPaperback
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Softcover. Reprint. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Cover faintly marked. Signed and Inscribed by the Author. 246 pages. The first novel of Guyanese born, English educated, author, academic, and diplomat. The story of a young Asian student abandoned in London by his father, was shortlisted for the UK John Llewellyn Rhys Prize won the Guyana Prize for Literature. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Seller Inventory # 232792
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