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Calypso in London by Sam Selvon
Category: Fiction
Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Sam Selvon is now widely considered to be one of the greatest chroniclers of the West Indian emigrant experience. His evoc ...Show more
Moses Ascending by Sam Selvon
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An uproarious exploration of Carribean immigrant experience from one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryMoses thinks he's got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is now the proud landlord of a ramshackle house in Shepherd's Bush, London. He has visions of being master of his own ...Show more
The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in London in 1965, The Housing Lark follows a group of West Indian friends as they attempt to buy a house together in the city they now call home, while also navigating racist attitudes, sexual politics, exploitative landlords and brushes with the law. Written with Selvon's characteristic exuberance ...Show more
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition.At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. The ...Show more
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon
Category: Fiction
With equal humour, sorrow and joy, the master storyteller brings together two worlds and turns his pen to life in Trinidad and London. Sharing tales of gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen, toiling canecutters reaping their harvest, to the determined and resourceful British Caribbean community ...Show more
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