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Two worlds, connected by the insult of slavery, are explored in this novel - the Caribbean plantation, and England. It is an account of inhumanity - of a self-pronounced Christian nation resistant to the black religious conversion in case they recognized that all people are equal under God.
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"A striking novel that pushes you dizzily into another time and place... Reading it is like being in the middle of a vibrant dream" (Sunday Times)
"Phillips points up the hypocrisy and humiliation of a society at breaking point; revealing it with subtlety, humour and humanity" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Caryl Phillips has proved himself to be among the best and most productive writers of his generation...with Cambridge he takes a firm step towards joining the company of the literary giants of our time" (New York Times)
"This powerful, seductively readable book, set in a 19th century slave plantation, finally puts the sickening realities of the slave trade firmly on the map" (Guardian)
"Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso" (The Times)
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"Phillips points up the hypocrisy and humiliation of a society at breaking point; revealing it with subtlety, humour and humanity" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Caryl Phillips has proved himself to be among the best and most productive writers of his generation...with Cambridge he takes a firm step towards joining the company of the literary giants of our time" (New York Times)
"This powerful, seductively readable book, set in a 19th century slave plantation, finally puts the sickening realities of the slave trade firmly on the map" (Guardian)
"Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso" (The Times)
Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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- PublisherTandem Library
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1417718625
- ISBN 13 9781417718627
- BindingHardcover
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