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Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.3 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm
Weight
0.29 kg.
ISBN
0060977078
ISBN13
9780060977078
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the book of jamaica

Russell Banks (Author) · Harper Perennial · Paperback

the book of jamaica - Banks, Russell

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Synopsis "the book of jamaica"

"A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror--the works." -- Chicago Sun-TimesIn The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its ever-present racial conflicts. His narrator, a thirty-five-year-old college professor from New Hampshire, goes to Jamaica to write a novel and soon becomes embroiled in the struggles between whites and Blacks. He is especially interested in an ancient tribe called the Maroons, descendants of the Ashanti, who had been enslaved by the Spanish and then fought the British in a hundred-year war. Despite this history of oppression, the Maroons have managed to maintain a relatively autonomous existence in Jamaica. Partly out of guilt and an intellectual sense of social responsibility, Banks's narrator gets involved in reuniting two clans who have been feuding for generations. Unfortunately, his attempt ends in disaster, and the narrator must deal with his feelings of alienation, isolation, and failure.

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