Sam Selvon

The Housing Lark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon A Penguin Classic Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark explores the Caribbean migrant experience in the "Mother Country" by following a group of friends as they attempt to buy a home together. Despite encountering a racist and predatory rental market, the friends scheme, often comically, to find a literal and figurative place of their own. Will these motley folks, male and female, Black and Indian, from Trinidad and Jamaica, dreamers, hustlers, and artists, be able to achieve this milestone of upward mobility? Unique and wonderful, comic and serious, cynical and tenderhearted, The Housing Lark poses the question of whether their "lark," or quixotic idea of finding a home, can ever become a reality. Kittitian-British novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips contributes a foreword, while postcolonial literature scholar Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1900
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 127g
• ISBN-13: 9780143133964
• ISBN-10: 0143133969
• Artikelnr.: 56722479

Autorenporträt

Sam Selvon; Foreword by Caryl Phillips; Introduction by Dohra Ahmad

Rezensionen

A unique and wonderful novel, comic and serious, cynical and tender-hearted ... With its surprisingly happy ending and irreverent, spirited wit, The Housing Lark goes against the grain of much postcolonial literature ... Funny, serious, innovative, multilingual, musical, The Housing Lark shows how literary expression can create community across race, gender, place, and time Dohra Ahmad