Description
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 collapse, as social structures give way, the novel confronts the tensions between social solidarity and dog-eat-dog individualistic ruthlessness. In the midst of this, Kipling Plass narrates his and his teenage friends’ struggles for both physical and emotional survival, amidst their own confusions of sexual and social identity.
Book Information
ISBN 9781845235925
Author Berkley Wendell Semple
Format Paperback
Imprint Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Publisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd