Historical fiction books from Antigua and Barbuda
Recommended historical fiction books (4)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Antigua and Barbuda for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's shadow. When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she makes rebellious friends and frequently challenges authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a 'young ... continue
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Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
In this luminous, bewitching new novel Jamaica Kincaid tells the story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. The island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffer who makes his living driving a navy blue Hillman along the wide-open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side and suppressed passion fills the air. Kincaid conjures up a moving picture of Mr Potter's youth - beginning with memories of his father, a poor fisherman, a... continue
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The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
After growing up without a mother, Xuela Claudette Richardson again finds herself imagining what the woman might have been like and how her own life might have turned out different had her mother not died.
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Unburnable : A Novel by Marie-Elena John EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Set partly in contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica, this debut novel deftly intertwines the cultures of blacks in the United States and the West Indies as an extraordinary multigenerational family saga unfolds.