The Ice Migration - Couverture souple

Crooks, Jacqueline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845233581 ISBN 13 : 9781845233587

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The stories in this collection move around in time and place, but linked by the experiences of the descendants of a Jamaican family of mixed Indian and African heritage.

From Roaring River in rural Jamaica in 1908 where the descendants of African slaves make connections with new arrivals from Calcutta to work in the sugar cane fields, to Southall in 2013, where the Millers live alongside newer migrants from India, The Ice Migration is a poetic exploration of movement as central to the human condition, from the ancestors of the vanished Tainos in Jamaica who crossed the Behring Straits 40,000 years ago, who linger in spirit, to Tutus who is driven to separation from her family, to the constancy of moving on and ultimately return to Roaring River.

The people of Jacqueline Crooks stories are deeply enmeshed in their African/Indian Jamaican world of dreams, visions, duppies and spiritual presences that connect them across time and place. What they discover beyond the strangeness of change of place and the hostilities they encounter is that life remains defined by its common crises of birth, the complications of sexuality, sickness, old age, and death and the comforts of food, stories and memory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jacqueline Crooks is a Jamaican-born writer. She writes about Caribbean migration and subcultures. She has been published by Granta, Virago and MsLexia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845233581
• ISBN 13: 9781845233587
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible