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Cudgoe has died several times in the past 300 years. Now, as a ghost he is watching over the Hill, a fictionalized island nation in the Caribbean that has just won its independence. Then bauxite deposits are discovered under the Hill and the government evicts the residents to begin strip mining. Cudgoe and his "ghostly" friends help the inhabitants by interfering with the plans of a corrupt government.
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In his first novel, Kwadwo Agymah Kamau has written a story of the contests played out in the Carribean between the spirit of the people and the colonizing and corrupt structures that attempt to control the island paradise. With an intimate sense for the dialect of his native Barbados, Agymah Kamau tells a memorable story of exploitation, resistance, and rebellion, with a narrative point of view that extends beyond the boundaries of the living and the dead, to the life of the unnamed island and the people who live in the village known simply as the Hill.
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Set on a fictional Caribbean island, Flickering Shadows is the story of the colorful and compelling inhabitants of a small ex-colony, a village called the Hill. Cephus' grandfather - arguably one of the most intriguing narrators to appear in fiction in some time - draws the reader into the lives and vivid dramas of the whole community. Cephus, Doreen, Boysie, Inez, young Kwame, the ghost, Dolphus, and an array of vibrantly depicted characters from a rich and hypnotic tale of love and betrayal, selflessness and honor, lust and dignity.
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0805054723
- ISBN 13 9780805054729
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages298
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