Abeng - Softcover

Cliff, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452274834 ISBN 13: 9780452274839

Verlag: Plume, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Cliff Michelle

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Críticas:

"Powerful and often lyric ... an important work." --Library Journal"The beauty and authority of her writing are coupled with profound insight." --Toni Morrison "Her keen eye for detail and pithy anecdotal descriptions bring Jamaica's present and past to life." --New York Times Book Review "Jamaican history, lore, and lanscape are evocatively re-created in this multilayered novel. Through its richness and diversity of detail, Abeng achieves a timeless universality." --Publisher's Weekly "Abeng is a solid achievement, a book that offers a wealth of history and culture. ... [Cliff's] perception of character, her receptivity to sensuous detail, her rendering of the language, make our journey ... a richly textured experience." --Plexus

Reseña del editor:

Ever since "Abeng" was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in Clare Savage, her Jamaican heroine, who appeared, already grown, in "No Telephone to Heaven." "Abeng" is a kind of prequel to that highly acclaimed novel and is a small masterpiece in its own right. Here Clare is twelve years old, the light-skinned daughter of a middle-class family, growing up among the complex contradictions of class versus color, blood versus history, harsh reality versus delusion, in a colonized country. In language that surrounds us with a richness of meaning and voices, the several strands of young Clare's heritage are explored: the Maroons, who used the conch shell - the abeng - to pass messages as they fought a guerilla struggle against their English enslavers; and the legacy of Clare's white great-great-grandfather, Judge Savage, who burned his hundred slaves on the eve of their emancipation. A lyrical, explosive coming-of-age story combined with a provocative retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica, this novel is a triumph.

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• Verlag: Plume
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0452274834
• ISBN 13: 9780452274839
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176