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William Fletcher is an aspiring novelist who has come to New York to escape his affluent West Indian roots.
A chance meeting in a Greenwich Village bar reunites him with two of his childhood companions: Laurence, who left the poverty of his village to become an Oxford scholar and poet, and the vivacious Rachel, William's second cousin and first love. Together the three make a liquor-soaked pledge to return 'home' to Trinidad for the annual carnival. As the festival's ecstasy slides into a fog of ganja, alcohol, and endless calypso beat, Rachel casts her eyes on Eddoes, member of the isolated, Rastafarian-like Earth People, and the year's young and scandalous carnival King. Eddoes has escaped his sequestered life in the mysterious Hell Valley for a few days of excitement. It is to this remote place that the group goes to cool down after the festival.
In the rainforest they hope for a secret paradise from which to begin anew. But even here the demons of history, prejudice, and hatred violently intrude, as the novel's startling conclusion forces all to face both the power - and impotence - of human resilience and human love.
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"'Antoni has pulled off a stunning and original literary feat: elevating Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises to archetypal status and then brilliantly dismantling it in light of the 21st-century zeitgeist.' Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner"
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A brilliantly realised portrait of our very own 'lost generation', Carnival is a fantastically seductive and intelligent novel by one of the most exciting writers of the Caribbean diaspora.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0571227856
- ISBN 13 9780571227853
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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