Crossing the Mangrove

9 best books like Crossing the Mangrove (Maryse Condé): Black Skin, White Masks, Abeng, The Ventriloquist's Tale, Trinidad Noir, Fiddler's Green, The Otterbury Incident, Incognito, Kärlekens Antarktis, Silvervägen

Black Skin, White Masks
AuthorFrantz Fanon
ISBN0802150845
Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.

“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...
AuthorMichelle Cliff
ISBN0452274834
An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere...
AuthorPauline Melville
ISBN1582340269
Pauline Melville conjures up vivid pictures both of savanna and forest and of city life in South America where love is often trumped by disaster. Unforgettable characters illuminate theme and plot: Sonny, the strange, beautiful and isolate son of Beatrice and Danny, the brother and sister who have...
AuthorLisa Allen-Agostini
ISBN1933354550
I recently discovered the Noir series and I am hooked. Having read "Kingston Noir" I decided to read "Trinidad Noir".

I have been living in Trinidad and Tobago for the last four years and it is always so enlightening to read about a place you currently live or visited. I have to admit, while this...
AuthorA.S. Peterson
ISBN0982621418
The long-awaited sequel and conclusion to A. S. Peterson's critically-acclaimed The Fiddler's Gun. Fin Button undertakes a perilous voyage to the Barbary Coast to aid the War for Independence and secure a pardon for herself and her men. But the journey will lead them through waters far darker than...
AuthorC. Day-Lewis
ISBN0435120018
“This is a really super story—I shold know, I wrote it. My name is George, and I’m Ted’s second-in-command: Ted is is centre-forward of the Junior XI at King’s School in Otterbury and a first class chap. He’s the leader of our company, and the story began with our battle against Toppy’s...
AuthorGregory Murphy
ISBN0425241033
An elegant literary mystery set during the Gilded Age.

New York City, 1911. Representing the widow of a Wall Street financier, lawyer William Dysart travels to a small Long Island town with a generous offer for Miss Sybil Curtis's cottage and five acres of land. But when Sybil refuses to sell,...
Kärlekens Antarktis
AuthorSara Stridsberg
ISBN9100177148
”Och det var juni, det var månaden för att försvinna, månaden för att bli hittad i stycken, månaden för att förlora sitt huvud, sin tunga och sitt kön.”

En kort stund har hon funnits i världen, med dess begär, längtan och fruktan. Tills någon valde att släcka hennes liv och...
Silvervägen
AuthorStina Jackson
Det är sommar. Sedan tre år tillbringar Lelle nätterna med att köra bil. Han kör utmed väg 95 som skär genom landet från Skellefteå i nordvästlig riktning förbi Arvidsjaur, Arjeplog och mynnar vid norska gränsen, den väg som kallas Silvervägen. För tre år sedan försvann hans dotter...
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