Books from Dominica
9 popular dominican books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around North America Challenge" were written by authors from Dominica.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Das Orchideenhaus by Phyllis Shand Allfrey DE
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
"The novel, as narrated by the old nurse Lally, revolves around the return of three Creole sisters to their native island after years abroad: Stella, drawn to the lush tropical by an impassioned yearning; Joan, a grass-roots political activist in London; and Natalie, a wealthy old man's hedonistic widow..."
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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves-- and losses-- of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait.
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Island Man by Joanne Skerrett EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
Island Man is a story about a father and son who struggle to forge a relationship out of generations of family trauma, secrets, and loss.
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It Falls Into Place: The Short Stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey by Phyllis Shand Allfrey EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
These tantalizing stories - set in Dominica, New York, and London yet always steeped in an unmistakably West Indian identity - probe beneath the surface of colonial life, often drawing on autobiographical experience.
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Orchid House by Phyllis Shand Allfrey EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
Intensely autobiographical, The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen through the loyal eyes of a white family's childhood nurse, Lally. Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister responds to the family's plight in different ways -- seeking change through romance or politics or money. First published in 1953, The Orchid House was republished by Virago Press in 1982 for Virago Modern Classic. It was later filmed by Channel 4 for a four-part series (1991) with Diana Quick, Frances Barber an... continue
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Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
In Jean Rhys's stunning debut novel, a young woman finds herself alone and penniless in Paris when her husband is arrested. She is taken in by a kind English couple--and finds herself drawn inexorably into a world both fascinating and strange. Love and obsession intertwine in this captivating and sinister tale.
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Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
So there's a good time coming for the ladies, is there?-a good time coming for the girls? About time too' Stories of women adrift in seedy bars and down-at-heel hotels, from a master of the short story form.
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.