A Tall History of Sugar

Informationen zum Autor Curdella Forbes is a Jamaican writer. She has published four previous works of fiction: Songs of Silence , A Permanent Freedom , Ghosts , and a children's book, Flying with Icarus and Other Stories . She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, and teaches at Howard University where she is a professor of Caribbean literature. She names among her literary influences the oral traditions of rural Jamaica, the fairy tales of her childhood and the work of Gabriel García Márquez. Klappentext A vivid epic following an unusual couple's mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica and England Zusammenfassung A vivid epic following an unusual couple's mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica and England

Report

A Tall History of Sugar is captivating from the very first page. Mythic in dimension yet movingly human in its details, alive with atmospheric richness, it heralds a fascinating new voice in English-language fiction JENNIFER EGAN

Product details

• Authors: Curdella Forbes, Forbes Curdella
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781786898708
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-870-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Jamaica, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary