Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.

Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a many-tongued chorus of common memory--and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.

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ISBN 13	9780679405337
ISBN 10	067940533X
Titel	Crossing the River
Autor	Caryl Phillips
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Alfred A. Knopf
Erscheinungsjahr	1994-01-18
Seitenanzahl	237
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