Contemporary fiction books from Trinidad and Tobago
Recommended contemporary fiction books (2)
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If you are into contemporary fiction here are some contemporary fiction books from Trinidad and Tobago for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • "Naipaul's finest work." —Chicago Tribune "A subtly incisive self-reckoning." —The Washington Post Book World The story of a writer’s singular journey – from one place to another, and from one state of mind to another. At the midpoint of the century, the narrator leaves the British colony of Trinidad and comes to the ancient countryside of England. And from within the story of this journey – of... continue
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The God of Good Looks by Breanne Mc Ivor EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Combining the honesty, warmth, and humor of Queenie and a modern-day Bridget Jones's Diary, this entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel from award-winning writer Breanne Mc Ivor follows a young Trinidadian woman finding her voice and a new kind of happy ending. Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government official is a sure-fire way to ruin your prospects. So when Obadiah Cortland, a notoriously tyrannical entrepreneur in the island's beauty scene, offers her a job, Bianca accepts,... continue