Gloria

Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Gloria's desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own. Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening that she must reconcile with the realities of her life, her love of Jamaica and a past that is never far behind her. Set against the turbulent backdrop of a country on the cusp of a new era, G ia is an enthralling and illuminating story of love and redemption.

Product details

• Authors: Kerry Young, Young Kerry
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 10.04.2014
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)
• EAN: 9781408843369
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-4336-9
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 20 x 2.7 cm
• Subjects: Sagas, Historical fiction, Kingston, Jamaica, 20th Century, Cuba, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Politics, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1940 to c 1949, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), escape poverty, women family history