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Cover: 9781474603614 | Augustown | Kei Miller | Taschenbuch | 240 S. | Englisch | 2017
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Augustown
Taschenbuch von Kei Miller
Sprache: Englisch

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Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don't, and plenty of things that shouldn't happen do. For the story of Kaia leads back to another momentous day in Jamaican history, the birth of the Rastafari and the desire for a better life.

Augustown is a novel about inequality and aspiration, memory and myth, and the connections between people which can transcend these things but not always change them. It is a window onto a moment in Jamaican history, when the people sought to rise up above their lives and shine.
Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don't, and plenty of things that shouldn't happen do. For the story of Kaia leads back to another momentous day in Jamaican history, the birth of the Rastafari and the desire for a better life.

Augustown is a novel about inequality and aspiration, memory and myth, and the connections between people which can transcend these things but not always change them. It is a window onto a moment in Jamaican history, when the people sought to rise up above their lives and shine.
Über den Autor
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He is the author of three novels, THE SAME EARTH, THE LAST WARNER WOMANand AUGUSTOWN, several collections of poetry and a book of short stories, THE FEAR OF STONES, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. In 2014, he won the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry for his collection, THE CARTOGRAPHER TRIES TO MAP A WAY TO ZION. He teaches Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 242
Inhalt: 240 S.
ISBN-13: 9781474603614
ISBN-10: 1474603610
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Miller, Kei
Hersteller: Orion Publishing Group
Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Maße: 195 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Kei Miller
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2017
Gewicht: 0,243 kg
preigu-id: 109070623
Über den Autor
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He is the author of three novels, THE SAME EARTH, THE LAST WARNER WOMANand AUGUSTOWN, several collections of poetry and a book of short stories, THE FEAR OF STONES, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. In 2014, he won the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry for his collection, THE CARTOGRAPHER TRIES TO MAP A WAY TO ZION. He teaches Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 242
Inhalt: 240 S.
ISBN-13: 9781474603614
ISBN-10: 1474603610
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Miller, Kei
Hersteller: Orion Publishing Group
Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Maße: 195 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Kei Miller
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2017
Gewicht: 0,243 kg
preigu-id: 109070623
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