Télécharger le livre :  The Lost Child
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Discover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips – inspired by Wuthering Heights.It is the 1960s. Isolated from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, Monica Johnson raises her sons in...

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Parution : 2019-11-07

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Télécharger le livre :  A View of the Empire at Sunset
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Award-winning writer Caryl Phillips presents a beautiful, heart-breaking novel of the life of Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea.‘[A] remarkable novel… The story of a troubled young woman trying to make her way in England during the early years of the twentieth...

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Parution : 2018-06-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Colour Me English
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What do we mean by 'English'? How does that image square with reality? How does our island look from abroad, and what aspects of our experience do we share with, for example, America - a nation built by outsiders and the huddled masses?Taking as its starting point a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-08-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Higher Ground
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In Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity.In the first story, a young West African is oppressed by the shadow of slavery; in the second an African-American...

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Parution : 2011-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Crossing the River
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for FictionCaryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through...

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Parution : 2011-02-15

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Télécharger le livre :  A Distant Shore
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The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. Between her visits to the doctor and the music lessons she gives to bored teenagers, she is...

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Parution : 2010-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  A New World Order
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A New World Order ranges widely across the Atlantic World that Caryl Phillips has charted in his award winning novels and non-fiction during the course of the past twenty years. He begins this collection by establishing his belief that there is a 'new world order' of...

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Parution : 2010-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Final Passage
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Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Unsatisfied with life on the island, Leila decides to leave her friends and follow her mother overseas, taking her restless husband Michael...

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Parution : 2010-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Atlantic Sound
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'Taut, fascinating and controversial. The Atlantic Sound may prove to be as influential today as Roots was a generation ago' Sunday Times ...

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Parution : 2010-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Dancing In The Dark
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'The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.' This is how W.C. Fields described Bert Williams, the highest-paid entertainer in America in his heyday and someone who counted the King of England and Buster Keaton among his fans.Born in the Bahamas, he...

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Parution : 2010-07-28

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Télécharger le livre :  In the Falling Snow
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Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. He takes refuge from his domestic problems in a long-cherished writing project and a renewed...

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Parution : 2009-10-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Cambridge
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Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and...

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Parution : 2009-09-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nature of Blood
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The Nature of Blood is an unforgettable novel about loss and persecution, about courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain yet absoulte necessity of human memory.A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African...

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Parution : 2009-07-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Foreigners: Three English Lives
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'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society' Observer ...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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