The True History of Paradise
$40.14
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2009
Summary
From the acclaimed author of THE PIRATE’S DAUGHTER comes a story of three women born into the divided, troubled paradise of Jamaica.
Easter, 1981. With Jamaica in a state of emergency, the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own. For Monica Landing, who had not spoken to her daughter for fifteen years, the death of Lana is the cruellest kind of loss. For Lana’s youngest sister, Jean, it is an incomprehensible tragedy. All she knows is that her beloved homeland holds no future fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755347049 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0755347048 |
| Author: | Margaret Cezair-Thompson |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Review |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 29mm |
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‘Skilfully crafted… marvellously evocative… conveys a vivid sense of many worlds folded into one’
Skilfully crafted… marvellously evocative… conveys a vivid sense of many worlds folded into one - Washington Post
Authentic… convincing… Cezair-Thompson writes with talent, grace and confidence - New York Times Book ReviewAbout The Author
Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Margaret Cezair-Thompson was born and raised in Jamaica, West Indies. Her first novel, THE TRUE HISTORY OF PARADISE, was published in 1999, and was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award; her second, THE PIRATE’S DAUGHTER, won the first ever Essence Literary Award for Fiction. She is a professor of English at Wellesley College, and lives in Massachusetts.
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