Phillips offers a darmning portrait of the schizophrenia of slavery through the stories of a prim and increasingly apprehensive English woman observing the peculiarities--and barely veiled brutality--of a sugar plantation in the 19th-century West Indies and a black slave whose profoundly Christian sense of justice is about to cost him his life.



"One of the subtlest, but most insistent, statements ever about the troubled and urgent relationships between...Africa and Europe, justice and injustice, cruelty and compassion."--Washington Post Book World
© Michael Eastman
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York. View titles by Caryl Phillips

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Phillips offers a darmning portrait of the schizophrenia of slavery through the stories of a prim and increasingly apprehensive English woman observing the peculiarities--and barely veiled brutality--of a sugar plantation in the 19th-century West Indies and a black slave whose profoundly Christian sense of justice is about to cost him his life.



"One of the subtlest, but most insistent, statements ever about the troubled and urgent relationships between...Africa and Europe, justice and injustice, cruelty and compassion."--Washington Post Book World

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© Michael Eastman
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York. View titles by Caryl Phillips

Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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