Books set in Trinidad and Tobago (41)
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1.
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous -- and endless -- struggle to weaken their hold over him, and purchase a house of his own.
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Archipelago by Monique Roffey EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
When a flood destroys Gavin Weald's home, tearing apart his family and his way of life, he doesn't know how to continue. A year later, he returns to his rebuilt home and tries to start again, but when the new rainy season arrives, so do his daughter's nightmares about the torrents, and life there becomes unbearable. So father and daughter and their dog - embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey will take them far from their Caribbean island home, into other unknown harbours and eventually across a massive ocean. They will sail through archipelagos, encounter the grande... continue
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Beyond a Boundary by C. L. R. James EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books about sport and culture ever written.
4.
Cereus Blooms at Night : A Novel by Shani Mootoo EN
IrelandDescription:
Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Night unveils the mystery surrounding Mala Ramchandin and the tempestuous history of her family. At the heart of this bold and seductive novel is an alleged crime committed many years before the story opens. Mala is the reclusive old woman suspected of murder who is delivered to the Paradise Alms House after a judge finds her unfit to stand trial. When she arrives at her new home, frail and mute, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a vivacious male nurse, who becomes her unlikely confidante and the storyteller... continue
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Dreams Beyond the Shore by Tamika Gibson EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
"Seventeen-year-old Chelsea March and was pretty satisfied with her life. Until recently. Willing to play the dutiful daughter as her father's bid to become Prime Minister of their island home brings her family into intense public scrutiny, Chelsea is swept along by the strong tidal wave of politics and becomes increasingly disturbed by her father's duplicity. She finds a reprieve when she meets Kyron, a kindred spirit encased in low riding blue jeans. The two share a bond as he too struggles to get beyond his father's shadow. But when Chelsea discovers an even darker more sinister side to her... continue
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El Cereus florece de noche by Shani Mootoo ES
Description:
Enlazada en una pequeña isla del Caribe, esta historia de amor, silencio y traicion explica el misterio que envuelve a Mala Ramchandon, una anciana perturbada que esta al cuidado de un cariñoso enfermero homosexual.
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El sanador místico by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul ES
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
En esta su primera novela, V.S. Naipaul presta su voz a Ganesh Ramsumair, maestro espiritual y político que, desde los más humildes orígenes, llegará a obtener la Orden del Imperio Británico. Pero no es la historia de este curioso personaje el argumento principal de esta novela: el ascenso social, el descubrimento de la cultura y de la escritura, el mundo colonial, la falsedad de las políticas poscoloniales o la ternura de la vida cotidiana son los temas que Naipaul nos presenta a través de Ganesh, y que serán, ya desde esta primera obra,... continue
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Ever Since We Small by Celeste Mohammed EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
An intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience and self-discovery are passed down through several generations of an Indo-Trinidadian family, Ever Since We Small is a sweeping epic that takes us from the days of the British Raj in India to multicultural modern Trinidad. Written in a blend of Standard English and several flavors of Trinidad kriol, Ever Since We Small follows the bloodline of a young woman, Jayanti, following her decision to become a girmitiya, an indentured laborer in the Caribbean. The generational after-effects of this decision are seen in the lives of Jay... continue
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Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting by Shivanee Ramlochan EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Ramlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic. Her poems reference the language and structural patterns of the genres of fantasy or speculative fiction, though with her own distinctive features, including the presence of such folkloric Trinidadian figures as the Duenne, those wandering lost spirits whose feet point backwards.
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