Flickering Shadows - Hardcover

Kamau, Kwadwo Agymah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566890497 ISBN 13: 9781566890496

Publisher: Coffee House Press, 1996

Synopsis

Political corruption, lust, and betrayal poison a Caribbean island paradise.

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Review:

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.

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1566890497
• ISBN 13: 9781566890496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304