Disappearance
Autor David Dabydeenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2005
This novel that echoes the styles of Joseph Conrad and V. S. Naipaul follows a young Guyanese engineer appointed to help save and shore up a Kent coastal village's sea defenses, and his relationship with the old woman with whom he lodges. Learning more about the village's history through his relationship with Mrs. Rutherford, the narrator discovers that underlying the village's Englishness is a latent violence that echoes the imperial past, forcing him to not only reconsider his perceptions of himself and his native Guyana, but also to examine the connection between land and memory.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781845230142
ISBN-10: 1845230140
Pagini: 157
Dimensiuni: 135 x 207 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN-10: 1845230140
Pagini: 157
Dimensiuni: 135 x 207 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Peepal Tree Press
Notă biografică
David Dabydeen was born on a sugar estate in Berbice, Guyana in 1957. His family lived for a time in New Amsterdam where he attended school. He recalls moving back to his family village, Brighton, during the 1964 race riots. At the age of around ten he won a scholarship to Queen's College in Georgetown where he studied for a couple of years. He was sent to England at the age of twelve in 1969 and was in care until he was sixteen. He won a scholarship to Cambridge University and read English there and at London Universities, completing his doctorate in 1982. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University for three years. He is currently Professor at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick and was for some years a roving ambassador for Guyana.