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The Intended
David Dabydeen
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Description for The Intended
Paperback. Talks about the narrator, who is twelve when he leaves his village in Guyana to come to England, where he is abandoned by his father into social care, but later wins a scholarship to Oxford. Featuring the narrator's Guyanese childhood and youth in working-class Balham, this novel explores the cost to his personality of losing that past. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
The young narrator of "The Intended" is twelve when he leaves his village in rural Guyana to come to England. There, he is abandoned into social care, but with great determination and self-discipline seizes every opportunity to follow his aunt's farewell advice, 'but you must take education...pass plenty exam' and wins a scholarship to Oxford. With an upper-class white fiancee, he has unquestionably arrived, but at the cost of ignoring the other part of his aunt's farewell: '...you is we, remember you is we.' Through remembering his Guyanese childhood and youth in working class Balham, the narrator's older self explores ... Read more
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Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845230135
SKU
V9781845230135
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About David Dabydeen
David Dabydeen was born on a sugar estate in Berbice, Guyana in 1957. His family lived for a time in New Amsterdam where he attended school. He recalls moving back to his family village, Brighton, during the 1964 race riots. At the age of around ten he won a scholarship to Queen's College in Georgetown where he studied for a ... Read more
Reviews for The Intended
'Essential reading. He narrates his painful story with a deft and often humorous touch, and provides us with some startling insights into poverty-stricken Guyana and multi-cultural London' - Caryl Phillips. 'A startlingly honest first novel which turns a thematic Heart of Darkness around to illuminate a groping pilgrimage' - Wilson Harris.