Caribbean & West Indies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643353Author Pam WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Pumkin Patterson dreams of a life beyond her Jamaican hometown. But what we dream of and where we belong aren't always the same thing...'An engaging coming-of-age tale' THE TIMES'A word-of-mouth sensation . . . Luminous' STYLIST'An unforgettable heroine'...

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 9781646220663Author Dionne IrvingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 140g

Pumkin Patterson dreams of a life beyond her Jamaican hometown. But what we dream of and where we belong aren't always the same thing...This heartfelt and uplifting story is for fans of The Girl With the Louding Voice and The Reading List'An engaging...

'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...

'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...

Pumkin Patterson dreams of a life beyond her Jamaican hometown. But what we dream of and where we belong aren't always the same thing...This heartfelt and uplifting story is for fans of The Girl With the Louding Voice and The Reading List'An engaging...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 9780374537388Author Alejo CarpentierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

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...

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

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 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 9780374527358Author Jamaica KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813952116Author �velyne TrouillotFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813952123Author �velyne TrouillotFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513209395Author H G De LisserFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

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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.AwardsCommended for Man Booker International Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781642861181Author Maryse CondFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint World EditionsPublisher World...

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 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 9798987926451Author Carlos PintadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sundial HousePublisher Sundial House

In 1976 Santo Domingo, Angel Maceta uncovers the real story behind the murder of his father, Puro Maceta, ten years prior. In the process, events that unfolded during and after the war are revealed, unleashing a series of small revolutions in his...

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...

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White British couple Hugh and Julia Pennington buy an old church to convert on a former cocoa plantation on a Caribbean island.Hugh and Julia want to ‘get involved’ in the life of their adopted island home. But they little suspect how much the horrors...

"This brilliant, shape-shifting novel teems with charms and curses, stunning disasters and startling moments of grace." -Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and WeatherA bold, witty, magical new voice in fiction, Justin Haynes weaves a...

Heartbreaking, shocking, and lyrical, "Kipling Plass" introduces us to a teenager abandoned by his mother after her mental breakdown. Set in a multiracial Guyanese village during the 1980s economic collapse, the novel grapples with the tensions between...