The colour of forgetting
Collins, Merle2023
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Set on the Caribbean island of Paz (not a million miles from Grenada), this is a book that creates a space between epic poetry and the novel in the way its sequence of interludes bring into focus the lives of family and community through time - and in the confinements of space. It moves from the days of slavery through to the 1980s, through the difficult inheritance of one family - or rather the disinheritance of those in the family born illegitimate. Throughout, the novel conveys a powerful sense of place, of both attachment and confinement, of the meaning of land in relation to the island's smallness, and the ever-present danger of the communal violence that can spring from those pressures.
Main title:
The colour of forgetting / Merle Collins.
Author:
Collins, Merle, author
Imprint:
Leeds : Peepal Tree Press, 2023.
Collation:
220 pages
Notes:
Originally published: London: Virago, 1995.
ISBN:
9781845235512 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2582938