Books set in Guyana (16)
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Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo EN
EnglandDescription:
Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by'a writer to watch and to enjoy.'* Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience.
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Disappearance by David Dabydeen EN
Country: South America / 
Guyana
Guyana
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Dunsmere Cliff on the Kent coast is in a state of impending collapse. A young West Indian engineer is appointed to help save the village that sits on its edge. He soon discovers the history of Dunsmere and its desire, deceit and sexual cruelty.
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I Have Crossed an Ocean : Selected Poems by Grace Nichols EN
Country: South America / Guyana
Guyana
Description:
Grace Nichols' poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience. Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting. Born and educated in Guyana, Grace Nichols moved to Britain in 1977. I Have Crossed an Ocean is a comprehensive selection spanning some 25 years of her writing.
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Morgenhimmel by Grace Nichols DE
Country: South America / Guyana
Guyana
Description:
Dies ist die Geschichte der Familie Walcott, die in den 60er Jahren vom Land in die Stadt Georgetown, Guyana, zieht. Wir erleben das tägliche karibisch-tropische Leben, sehen es vor allem mit den Augen des jungen Mädchens Gem. Wir begegnen seltsamen, ungewöhnlichen Menschen, es geschehen merkwürdige Dinge, es wird viel gelacht, aber es gibt auch politische Aufstände, Plünderungen, Mord und Totschlag. Trotzdem ist der Roman in ein heiteres, klares Licht getaucht, den Morgenhimmel eines jungen, fröhlichen Lebens.
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Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas EN
Country: South America / Guyana
Guyana
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Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris EN
Country: South America / Guyana
Guyana
Description:
In his tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana, first published in 1960, Wilson Harris revealed the unique poetic vision and laid out the themes and designs, not only of his famous work, The Guyana Quartet, but of all his future work. The Palace of the Peacock displays that vision in all its hallucinatory vividness, given additional impact by its rejection of the conventions of the twentieth-century novel and the uncompromising energy of its use of language in its response to character and landscape. The compelling adventure story of the narrative is para... continue
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The Far Away Girl: A Heartbreaking and Gripping Novel of Tragedy and Secrets by Sharon Maas EN
Country: South America / Guyana
Guyana
Description:
She dreamed of finding a new life... Georgetown, Guyana 1970. Seven-year-old Rita is running wild in her ramshackle white wooden house by the sea, under the indulgent eye of her absent-minded father. Surrounded by her army of stray pets, free to play where she likes and climb the oleander trees, she couldn't feel more alive. But then her new stepmother Chandra arrives and the house empties of love and laughter. Rita's pets are removed, her freedom curtailed, and before long, there's a new baby sister on the way. There's no room for Rita anymore. With her father distracted by his new family, Ri... continue
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The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Grace Nichols EN
Country: South America / Guyana
Guyana
Description:
Grace Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures'.