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''A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive'' Sunday Times

''You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody else is lonely too''

This irresistible, bittersweet collection of short stories from the supreme chronicler of West Indian lives in Britain brings together two worlds: Trinidad and London. Here is an illicit love affair on a plantation, gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen, a boy rebelling against his parents'' traditions. Here too is life after leaving for England: hustling for work, eking out money for the gas meter in winter, dancing in clubs, discovering romance in a night-time park, experiencing unexpected kindness, dreams and disenchantment.

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    A Paperback / softback by Sam Selvon

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 01/02/2024
      ISBN13: 9780241654538, 978-0241654538
      ISBN10: 024165453X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive'' Sunday Times

      ''You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody else is lonely too''

      This irresistible, bittersweet collection of short stories from the supreme chronicler of West Indian lives in Britain brings together two worlds: Trinidad and London. Here is an illicit love affair on a plantation, gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen, a boy rebelling against his parents'' traditions. Here too is life after leaving for England: hustling for work, eking out money for the gas meter in winter, dancing in clubs, discovering romance in a night-time park, experiencing unexpected kindness, dreams and disenchantment.

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