Light Falling on Bamboo

Scott, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1906994390 / ISBN 13: 9781906994396

Published by Tindal st Pr Ltd, 2012

About this Item

Good: Ex-Library. A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, highlighting of text, writing in margins. No missing pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Light Falling on Bamboo
• Publisher: Tindal st Pr Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906994390
• ISBN 13: 9781906994396
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

From an acclaimed, prize-winning Trinidadian author comes an epic interracial period piece dramatizing the life of a 19th-century colonial artist

After a gentleman's education in Europe, landscape artist Michel Jean Cazabon returns home to Trinidad in 1848 in time for his mother's death, and discovers the changes to his island since the emancipation of slaves. Plantation owners and colonial administrators still hold the power, leaving freed blacks and "coloreds" not quite free; the idealism of revolutionary Paris now seems a dream away and his French wife and children are waiting to join him on the island. The busy working artist makes friends with the governor and English colonial settlers and secures commissions and painting lessons, but his sensual desires always threaten to compromise his prospects. His career may prosper, but he is more worried about his white wife's reaction to a family secret kept hidden by his father, mother, and a corrupted colonial island.

About the Author

Lawrence Scott is the author of Aelred's Sin and Ballad for the New World and Other Stories. Three of his books have been listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.