In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Lamming, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241296064 ISBN 13: 9780241296066

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2017

Synopsis

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'

Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule.

'Rich and riotous' The Times

'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune

About this title

Review:

Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed (Tribune)

Rich and riotous (The Times)

Fluent, poetical, sophisticated (Sunday Times)

About the Author:

George Lamming is a Barbados-born novelist, essayist, and poet. Currently Honorary Professor at the Errol Barrow Centre for the Creative Imagination at the University of the West Indies, Lamming has taught at universities around the world, including posts of Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke University and Visiting Professor at Brown University. His books include The Emigrants (1954), Of Age and Innocence (1958), and The Pleasures of Exile (1960).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241296064
• ISBN 13: 9780241296066
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368