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Raymond Ramcharitar
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Description for Here
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 132.
Here is a book-length autobiographical poem in five parts, addressing the all-encompassing themes of the Caribbean experience: history, migration, myth, and domestic love.
Varying in style and tone throughout, Here is guided by a single narrator on an epic global journey, beginning in Trinidad's plains of Caroni, and including an overnight bus trip across Europe, and a sojourn in Toronto, Canada. The sequence also features a moving account of a broken marriage, addressed to the narrator's daughter, and ends with 'The Last Avatar', a mini-epic which re-casts the Caribbean in the mould of Hindu eschatological myth.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845232122
SKU
V9781845232122
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Raymond Ramcharitar
Raymond Ramcharitar was born in Trinidad. He worked as a journalist and is the author of a controversial and provocative study of the deficiencies of the Trinidadian press, Breaking the News: Media & Culture in Trinidad.
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