The Girl With the Golden Shoes - Couverture souple

Channer, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933354267 ISBN 13 : 9781933354262

Editeur : Akashic Books,U.S., 2007

Synopsis

Book by Channer Colin

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a dazzling and picaresque novella of parts Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mark Twain, and Bob Marley. Set in 1942, on an imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba and Jamaica, it tells the story of Estrella Thompson, a 14-year-old forced to fend for herself when she is banished from the isolated fishing village where she has lived all her life. Her crime? Wanting to read and write. Prematurely ripe in body and mind, and contemptuous of the boundaries placed on her by gender, race and social class, Estrella takes the villagers rejection as a chance to change her life. Her aim is to get to Europe, which means that she has to get a job which means that she has to get a pair of shoes... and she's never worn a pair in her life.

Revue de presse :

"This is a jewel of a book. Channer's language is dancing and juicy, his vision penetrating, and his hero is magnificent." --Booklist (starred review)

"A rewarding and tense novella...the arrival of a talent matured." --Publishers Weekly

"Macmillan's Caribbean Writers series continues to deliver fictional treasure from the archipelago. This fable-like novella by Jamaican-born, US-based Colin Channer finds a sparky female Candide in Estrella ... The Caribbean tragi-comedy of class and colour finds a richly eloquent voice in this pin-sharp innocent abroad." --Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Akashic Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933354267
• ISBN 13: 9781933354262
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170