Crossing the River - Couverture souple

Phillips, Caryl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 009949826X ISBN 13 : 9780099498261

Editeur : Vintage, 2006

Synopsis

A voice speaking out of a distant past, describes the consequences of his desperation: his daughter and two sons are condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753. Here, are the stories of these children: Nash, Martha, and Travis.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Caryl Phillips has also won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Best of Young British Writers 1993. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.

‘Epic and frequently astonishing’
The Times

‘Its resonance continues to deepen’
New York Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 009949826X
• ISBN 13: 9780099498261
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256