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Caryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Award in 1994, and was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize.
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"A compassionate, forceful and profoundly moving revelation" (Scotland on Sunday)
"[T]here are gems of impassioned writing quilted within this ambitious cross-cultural novel of loss and reconciliation" (Sunday Times)
"Epic and frequently astonishing" (The Times)
"Crossing the River is dense with event and ingeniously structured. It requires concentration and is worth it" (Independent)
"An ambitious exploration of oppression, loss and reconciliation that employs a collage of styles and ranges across continents and centuries" (Nicci Gerrard Observer)
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"[T]here are gems of impassioned writing quilted within this ambitious cross-cultural novel of loss and reconciliation" (Sunday Times)
"Epic and frequently astonishing" (The Times)
"Crossing the River is dense with event and ingeniously structured. It requires concentration and is worth it" (Independent)
"An ambitious exploration of oppression, loss and reconciliation that employs a collage of styles and ranges across continents and centuries" (Nicci Gerrard Observer)
A Booker shortlisted novel by one of the finest writers of his generation
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- Publication date2006
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- ISBN 13 9780099498261
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- Number of pages256
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