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The first novel from a major new talent in Anglo-Caribbean writing set in and around the cane fields of Grenada.

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‘"Pynter Bender” is so beautifully profound. It is strange and otherworldly. It has the narrative power and seamless craft of a masterpiece. It is a book for all time.’ Bernardine Evaristo

Boyd Tonkin, Independent (Book of the Year)

‘A curious title, for a curious, captivating book...With startlingly descriptive language Ross manages to get right inside the heads and hearts of his characters, all the while showing the effect upon them of a decidedly magical, mysterious landscape, and the need to exercise the demons it harbours in order to move forward to a place of new hope.’ Independent on Sunday

‘The world is depicted in all its harshness and beauty in this evocative, lyrical debut novel of life in the cane fields of pre-independence Grenada...Ross conveys how the physical world is perceived by Pynter with raw intensity. The passage of time is wonderfully evoked...The emotional landscape is also brilliantly traversed.’ The Monday Book, Independent

‘This is a compelling story of a misfit made good...Jacob Ross with his ear for island patois and poetic imagination, is a writer to watch.’ TLS

‘Wonderful.’ Philip Hensher, Independent

‘The world is depicted in all its harshness and beauty in this evocative, lyrical debut novel of life in the cane fields of pre-independence Grenada...Ross conveys how the physical world is perceived by Pynter with raw intensity. The passage of time is wonderfully evoked...The emotional landscape is also brilliantly traversed.’ The Monday Book, Independent

Book of the Year – Spectator

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The first novel from a major new talent in Anglo-Caribbean writing set in and around the cane fields of Grenada. Pynter Bender is a child of the cane fields of Grenada, the second smallest independent state in the world. This extraordinary novel, Jacob Ross's first, experienced through a boy born blind but whose eyes are healed, charts the painful awakening of a rural population, essentially organised around serfdom, into a raw and uncertain future that can only be achieved through fighting, a civil war that Pynter is drawn in to. Pynter's father leaves him to be brought up by the Bender women, a close-knit group of aunts and cousins, and Pynter's early life is shaped by these women. He begins to understand a world beyond them when his uncle, Birdie the Beloved, the best baker on the island, occasionally returns to the family on his brief periods out of jail. When Pynter comes to love a woman, and later flees his family to hide in the canes from the marauding soldiers, he can no longer ignore the violent world beyond the yard where he lives.'

Pynter Bender' is about the conflict between the world of men and women, men who walk away from their families and from the cane fields and their women who forbear. It brilliantly describes the birth of a modern West Indian island and the shaping of its people as they struggle to shuck off the systems that have essentially kept them in slavery for centuries.

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  • PublisherWilliam The 4th
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 000722298X
  • ISBN 13 9780007222988
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