Books by Caryl Phillips (10)
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A New World Order : Essays by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / 
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips’ profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society. At once deeply reflective and coolly prescient, A New World Order charts the psychological frontiers of our ever-changing world. Through personal and literary encounters, Phillips probes the meaning of cultural dislocation, measuring the distinguishing features of our identities–geographic, racia... continue
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A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s P... continue
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Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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"Caryl Phillips, "seen by many as the father of Afro-British fiction" (The New York Times), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London"--
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Cambridge by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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" ... A prim and increasingly apprehensive Englishwoman observing the peculiarities -- and barely veiled brutality -- of a sugar plantation in the nineteenth-century West Indies. A devout black slave whose profoundly Christian sense of justice is about to cost him his life ... As a suspenseful and inescapably damming portrait of the schizophrenia of slavery, Caryl Phillip's book belongs in the company of Beloved and The Confessions of Nat Turner." From the book jacket.
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Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery.
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Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874—1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the “coon.” Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner–as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him “the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.” It is this dichotomy at Williams’ core that Phillip... continue
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La naturaleza de la sangre by Caryl Phillips ES
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Vidas aparentemente dispares que se ven relacionadas a través de las fronteras de los siglos por las circunstancias, el espíritu y la propia sangre: la joven judía que sale de los campos de concentración nazis, su tío que socava las certezas de su propia vida para luchar por el Estado israelí, los feroces prejuicios que afectan a los judíos del gueto veneciano del siglo XVI, el shakesperiano general africano que dirige los ejércitos de aquella misma Venecia, la judía etíope reasentada en Israel... a pesar de sus diferencias, todos comparten el peso de la memoria como lastre y sostén. Una histo... continue
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The Final Passage by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Trouble with her mother and her new husband convinces nineteen-year-old Leila to emigrate from her Caribbean island to England.
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The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica Johnson—cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner—and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Phillips intertwines her modern narrative with the childhood of one of literature's most enigmatic lost boys, as he deftly conjures young Heathcliff, the anti-hero of Wuthering Heights, and his ragged existence before Mr.... continue
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The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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The Nature of Blood is an unforgettable novel about loss and persecution, about courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain yet absoulte necessity of human memory. A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth century Venice are bound by personal crisis and momentous social conflict. What emerges is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with sameness and difference, with blood.