Crossing the River

ISBN-13: 9780679757948 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str.

Caryl Phillips

Opis

From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.
Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a -many-tongued chorus- of common memory--and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.