One of England's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, genteel Englishwoman.

Author: Caryl Phillips
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 02/02/1993
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780679736899


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/1998 pg. 979
Publishers Weekly 01/11/1993
Essence 10/01/2007 pg. 94

About the Author
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York.