![]() Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. San Francisco Chronicle About the Author CARYL PHILLIPS was born in St. Review Quotes Phillips is a master ventriloquist, giving immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters about whom the reader cares deeply. Combined and in the skilled hands of Phillips, these narratives take on a devastating power. And in a dreary city in postwar England, a displaced Jewish refugee watches her youth and sanity slip down the drain of history. From an American prison cell in the 1960s, a black convict tries to impart his vision of race and justice to his indifferent family. ![]() In a slave garrison in Africa, a native collaborator betrays his people and humiliates himself in order to win the favor of white men. ![]() Book Synopsis A searing novel about slavery and its legacy that tells multiple stories, set generations and continents apart but unified by their ambitious exploration of themes of race, power, captivity, and abuse-from a master ventriloquist giv immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters about whom the reader cares deeply (San Francisco Chronicle). ![]()
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