Caryl Phillips

Another Man in the Street

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Produktbeschreibung

Victor, a West Indian immigrant and the son of a St. Kitt's cane cutter, leaves his native Caribbean home in the 1960s for England. He attempts to establish himself in his new country before bringing his wife and young son.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780374613556
• ISBN-10: 0374613559
• Artikelnr.: 70526775

Autorenporträt

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including A View of the Empire at Sunset, The Lost Child, Crossing the River, and Color Me English. His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and Dancing in the Dark the PEN Open Book Award. His other honors include a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.

Rezensionen

This elegiac novel tracks a West Indian man's life in London over decades, exploring the emotional cost of leaving home and being met by hatred and rejection… refreshing… a fable-like, enigmatic tale