In the Castle of My Skin

They won''t know you, the you that''s hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin''br>br>Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their ''Little England'' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming''s autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule.br>br>''Rich and riotous'' The Timesbr>br>''Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed'' Tribune>

Product details

• Authors: George Lamming, Mr George Lamming
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 25.05.2017
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780241296066
• ISBN: 978-0-241-29606-6
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.1 cm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: biography, Jamaica, Barbados, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Autobiography, Caribbean islands, WW2, Colonialism and imperialism, Caribbean, Autobiography: writers, Espionage, Biographies, biography autobiography, biographies and autobiographies, the rebellion chronicles, windrush generation, crriben, andrea levy small island