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 is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award 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 Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.

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