Sugar Money - Harris, Jane
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"Set in 1765 on the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Martinique, Sugar Money opens as two enslaved brothers--Emile and Lucien--are sent on an impossible mission forced upon them by their masters, a band of mendicant French monks. The monks run hospitals on the islands and fund their ventures through farming sugar cane and distilling rum. Seven years earlier--after a series of scandals--they were ousted from Grenada by French authorities and had to leave their slaves behind. Despite the fact that Grenada is now under British enemy rule, the monks devise an absurdly ambitious plan: they send…mehr

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"Set in 1765 on the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Martinique, Sugar Money opens as two enslaved brothers--Emile and Lucien--are sent on an impossible mission forced upon them by their masters, a band of mendicant French monks. The monks run hospitals on the islands and fund their ventures through farming sugar cane and distilling rum. Seven years earlier--after a series of scandals--they were ousted from Grenada by French authorities and had to leave their slaves behind. Despite the fact that Grenada is now under British enemy rule, the monks devise an absurdly ambitious plan: they send Emile and Lucien to the island to convince the monks' former slaves to flee British brutality and escape with them"--
Autorenporträt
Jane Harris (born 1961) is a British writer of fiction. Her latest novel, Gillespie and I, was published to critical acclaim in the UK in May 2011 by Faber and Faber. Her first novel The Observations was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2007 and has been published in over 20 territories worldwide. In France, The Observations was shortlisted for the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger (2009), and in the USA it won the Book of the Month Club’s First Fiction Prize (2007). The Observations chosen as one of the 100 Books of the Decade. Jane lives on the South Coast of England.