Caribbean & West Indies

EVERYONE THINKS MALA IS A MURDERER'A Caribbean classic' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch-------Everyone in Paradise thinks Mala Ramchandin is a murderer. But with no body, no evidence and no witnesses, Mala is sent to an Alms House as...

'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...'Francis Sancher always said he would come to an unnatural end. So...

Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother.Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537388Author Alejo CarpentierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

A feel-good tale of unlikely friendship, community and learning to live life in the slow lane, perfect for fans of Clare Pooley and Hazel Prior Daniel isn't used to living life in the slow lane. So when he finds himself unexpectedly jobless and back in...

Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana.It was as if we'd reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That's how low we sank.The year is 1993. Cuba is at the...

'A masterpiece of hurt' New York TimesWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONIQUE ROFFEYIn the Caribbean, at the beginning of the last century, a poor rice-growing family struggle to exist. Four siblings pass their days in the ricefield, as does Ma. But Pa is an...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year He just knocked, that was all, knocked at the front door and waited, like the fourteen years since the night I'd killed my mother hadn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527358Author Jamaica KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and...

Set on the Caribbean island of Paz (not a million miles from Grenada), this is a book that creates and occupies a space between epic poetry and the novel in the way its sequence of interludes bring into focus the lives of family and community through...

Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy grappling with his identity in colonial Martinique.As Jose transitions from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119743Author Eskor David JohnsonFormat HardbackImprint McSweeney'sPublisher McSweeney'sWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 147mm * 43mm

Cléante Desgraves Valcin (1891-1956) was a poet, writer, and feminist—most prominently Haiti’s first published female novelist, who employed her sentimental fiction to explore matters of race, gender, nationalism, and sovereignty. A contemporary of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987926444Author Irizelma RoblesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sundial HousePublisher Sundial House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989242155Author Peta-Gaye NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Tamarind Tree Books Inc.Publisher Tamarind Tree Books Inc.Weight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990716003Author Claudia ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Boeboe Creative Inc.Publisher Boeboe Creative Inc.Weight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558613201Author Gabriel CarleFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513209401Author Thomas MacdermotFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987926451Author Carlos PintadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sundial HousePublisher Sundial House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959030379Author Myriam Ja ChancyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 499g

*Inspiration for the 2017 film adaptation by Andrés Curbelo and David Maler.* In the Time of the Butterflies meets Woman of Light in this propulsive work of historical fiction about US intervention and corruption in the Dominican Republic. In 1976,...

An award-winning cyberpunk novel set in mid-21st century Cuba, Freeway: La Movie crosses the absurdity of American pop culture with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations. A novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first century dystopian...

Yanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings. In Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a "high-pitched sweetness", a sweetness that overwhelms Francis, a French...

Heartbreaking, shocking, lyrical and sometimes grimly funny, Kipling Plass has to survive as teenager abandoned by his mother after her mental breakdown. Set in a multiracial Guyanese village in the 1980s, at the height of that country’s economic...