The Intended by David Dabydeen

The Intended by David Dabydeen

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Zusammenfassung

A semi-autobiographical first novel about rites of passage in London's Asian community. It follows the lives of a group of boys as they make their way through the minefield of English society. The author won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for his first collection of poems, "Slave Song".

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The Intended by David Dabydeen

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.

David Dabydeen is the director of the University of Warwick's Institute for Caribbean Studies. He was born in Guyana but has spent most of his life in the United Kingdom. He is the author of the novels The Intended, Disappearance, The Counting House, and A Harlot's Progress, as well as two previous collections of poetry, Slave Song and Coolie Odyssey, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Award. He is regarded as one of the best writers in the United Kingdom. He's also the author of Hogarth's Blacks: Visions of Blacks in 18th Century English Painting, The Counting House, and A Harlot's Progress.

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ISBN 13 9780436200076
ISBN 10 0436200074
Titel The Intended
Autor David Dabydeen
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr 1991-02-11
Seitenanzahl 256
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