Books set in Grenada and Carriacuou (9)
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Die Knochenleser by Jacob Ross DE
Country: North America / 
Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
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Camoha, eine Insel der Kleinen Antillen: Dort wird der junge Michael "Digger" Digson, zunächst gegen seinen Willen, von dem mysteriösen Detective Superintendent Chilman für eine Polizeitruppe rekrutiert, die gegen alle Korruption und alle politischen Widerstände effektive Polizeiarbeit leisten soll, und sei's mit eigenwilligen Mitteln. Digger lässt sich zum Forensiker ausbilden und wird ein Virtuose des "Knochenlesens". Zudem ist er auf der Suche nach seiner Mutter, die spurlos verschwunden und vermutlich ermordet worden ist.
Auch Chilman hat ... continue
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Ocean Stirrings Work Fiction Tribute L : Ocean Stirrings: a Work of Fiction in Tribute to Louise Langdon Norton Little, Working Mother and Ac by Merle Collins EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
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A mix of fictive narrative, letters and poetry, with episodes of great warmth, exuberant humour, drama, and heartbreak, telling a story of Louse Little. The mother of the revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X was a Grenadian woman born at the turn of the 20th century in a small rural community in a deeply colonial society where access to education had only just begun for the children of working people. She emigrated to Canada and then the USA, where she became involved in the struggle for Black civil rights led by Marcus Garvey. Within the sparse facts of Louise Langdon Norton Little' s biography,... continue
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Tell No-one about this : Collected Short Stories 1975-2017 by Jacob James Ross EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
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This substantial collection brings together stories written over a span of forty years, including from Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories. The previously published pieces have been extensively revised. They range from stories set in Grenada at different periods from the 1970s onwards, to stories set in the UK. --
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The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
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After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman. Digger becomes enmeshed in Chilman's obsession with a cold case, the disappearance of a young man. But Digger has a murder to pursue too: that of his mother, killed by a renegade police squad when he was a boy. He has two weapons at his disposal his skill in forensics, and Chilman's latest recruit, the mysterious, observant Miss Stanislaus. ... continue
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The Grenada Revolution : What Really Happened? by Bernard Coard EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
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"A PAGE-TURNING WHO-DONE-IT. A MUST READ!" (Horace Levy, Sociologist, University Lecturer, Civil Society activist and Journalist, Jamaica) Finally, the inside story: honest, self-critical, and based on a wealth of credible and independent documentation. Bernard Coard reveals in dramatic detail the factors, forces and personalities which cumulatively led to deepening crisis within the Grenada Revolution and ultimately to wholesale tragedy. Bernard Coard, United States and British trained economist and university lecturer, played a leading role in the NJM and in the People's Revolutionary Govern... continue
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Under the Silk Cotton Tree : A Novel by Jean Buffong EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
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This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.
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Winds of Fedon by Dunbar Campbell EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
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It was a slave rebellion like no other. It was led by a slave ownerIn a time and place like no other. With people like no other. A British island with a French population - when British and French hated each other.African slaves and white owners - when blacks and whites hated each other. Brown slave-owners - distrusted by blacks,and hated by whites. A perfect storm in an imperfect time and imperfect place. All it needed was a spark.Some say the spark started when a young white British officer fell in love with Rosette, the black daughter of Fédon, the rebel leader. Maybe.Two hundred years afte... continue