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Even in Paradise is a modern-day King Lear; a novel of greed, resentment, jealousy, betrayal and romance set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados. Peter Ducksworth, a Trinidadian widower of English ancestry, retires to Barbados, believing he will find an earthly paradise there. He decides to divide his land among his three daughters while he is alive. When he feels snubbed by his youngest daughter and decides not to give her her land until his death, he sets into motion the very strife he hoped to prevent. Nunez weaves themes of racism and classism in the postcolonial Caribbean.
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"Nunez is one of the finest and most necessary voices in contemporary American and Caribbean fiction." --Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
"Nunez has always had the power to get to the essence of what makes human beings take right and wrong turns." --Edward P. Jones, author of The Known World
"The Caribbean is so blessed to have Elizabeth Nunez writing from and for us! This novel is pan-Caribbean and multiracial, crossing the West Indies with Caribbean characters ethnically originating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Even in Paradise adds another dimension to how we read Shakespeare's King Lear while celebrating the cultural institutions in the region that have made writers like Nunez possible." --Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning
"Another engaging novel by an accomplished author who retells the story of King Lear in a Caribbean landscape with racial tensions playing out alongside the classic narrative of greed and parent/child relations....[The novel] is structured with interesting and layered plots, but what I like best is [Nunez's] exquisite language detailing Caribbean landscapes and people....I strongly recommend this book, especially to those who love Caribbean stories." --Me, You, and Books
"Even in Paradise is Caribbean drama as grand epic. Nunez, always a master of unexpected contrasts, does it here again. A story told on a huge scale that still manages to be achingly personal and intimate." --Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
"It's an epic story that still feels intimate to the reader." --Booklist
About the Author
Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of nine novels and a memoir. Both "Boundaries" and "Anna In-Between" were "New York Times" Editors' Choices. "Anna In-Between" won the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Nunez also received the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in non?ction for "Not for Everyday Use," the 2011 Writers for Writers Award from "Poets & Writers" and Barnes & Noble, an American Book Award, and a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. She is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches ?ction writing. She divides her time between Amityville and Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherAkashic Books
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1617754404
- ISBN 13 9781617754401
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages324
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