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Book SynopsisNow available after over four decades, the first collection of short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian luminary Austin Clarke winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Trillium Book Award for his novel The Polished Hoe is a vital, lyrical, and provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada.
Originally issued in 1971, Austin Clarke's first published collection of eleven remarkable stories showcases his groundbreaking approach to chronicling the Caribbean diaspora experience in Canada. Characters move through the mire of working life, of establishing a home for themselves, of reconciling with what and who they left behind all the while contending with a place in which their bone-chilling reception is both social and atmospheric. In lyrical, often racy, and wholly unforgettable prose, Clarke portrays a set of provocative, scintillating
Trade Review
Tremendously versatile in what he expresses, and exhilarating to read. * Globe and Mail *
Powerful and probing. Situations may be cruel, reactions vulgar, but the vitality of the characters is mirrored by the style which shapes and moulds and becomes, from time to time, the theme itself. * London Free Press *
Funny, sad, boisterous, virile, vigorous. * Queen’s Quarterly *
Gives a convincing and compassionate picture of the life of these immigrants in Toronto set against the varied backgrounds of their West Indian life. * Windsor Star *
