Ten Days in Jamaica - Couverture souple

Fulani, Ifeona

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845231996 ISBN 13 : 9781845231996

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Ifeona Fulani s stories are elegant, witty, sad and brave. Their powerful sense of place transports the reader to the landscapes, colours, foliage and food of Jamaica and India, seen with brilliant immediacy. The social observations are acute, the contrasts of cultures subtly drawn, the characters alive. She has given a personal voice to women and men from the post-colonial world from whom we hear too little. This is a very enjoyable collection. - Margaret Drabble

Chips makes no bones about the fact that her holiday in Jamaica is about using her white skin and money to find some beach-boy sex, but does Yvonne, coming home to recover from her cancer, behave any differently when she starts an affair with Donovan, her odd-jobbing handyman? Is there some truth in Arjun s accusation that Jewel has used him to pursue her black Londoner s dream of an exotic India? Where do responsibility and freedom begin and end in Bea s relationship with her adolescent daughter, Daria, about to make her first hesitant sexual explorations? The stories offer no easy answers to such questions, only the means to greater understanding and empathy for their characters motivations.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ifeona Fulani is the author of "Seasons of Dust," and her short stories have been published in the Beacon's Best anthology series, "Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire "journal, and "Small Axe "journal. She has taught fiction workshops in the United States, the UK, and France and currently teaches in the writing concentration in the liberal studies program at New York University. She lives in New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1845231996
• ISBN 13: 9781845231996
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120