Caryl Phillips

Final Passage (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Final Passage is Caryl Phillips's first novel and tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Her Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409002499
• Artikelnr.: 39215960

Autorenporträt

Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and Caryl Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Best of Young British Writers 1993. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.

Rezensionen

The Final Passage marks the debut of a talented writer...Phillips writes a nicely elegant prose, has a sharply observant eye, and the effect is truthful, modest and convincing Guardian