The Repenters by Kevin Jared Hosein
When the infant Jordan Sant is taken to the St Asteria Home for Children after the murder of his parents, he sets out on a journey that is a constant struggle between his best and worst selves. One relationship, with the young nun the children call Mouse, awakens the possibilities of love and hope, but when Mouse abandons her calling and leaves the home, the world thereafter becomes a darker place. When, barely a teenager, he runs away from the home to scuffle for a living in the frightening underbelly of Port of Spain, Jordan reaches the lower depths of both Trinidadian society and himself. In Jordan Sant, Kevin Jared Hussein creates a narrator who gets under your skin. He takes us into the most dreadful places of human experience, confesses doing seemingly unforgivable things. But though Jordan knows how inescapable circumstance can be, he never denies responsibility for his actions. But can this Dostoyevskian figure save himself? The Repenters takes us to places in Trinidad readers will have never been before. In Kevin Hosein the Caribbean announces a writer whose work is poetic, Gothic, and deeply transgressive, whose creation of a voice for Jordan Sant is troubling, engrossing and not to be forgotten.
Kevin Jared Hosein currently resides in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the 2015 Caribbean regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his entry, The King of Settlement 4. In 2013, he wrote and illustrated his first book, Littletown Secrets, which was named the best children's book of 2013 by the Trinidad Guardian. His poem, The Wait is So, So Long was adapted into a short film which was awarded a Gold Key at the New York-based Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845233310 |
| ISBN 10 | 184523331X |
| Titel | The Repenters |
| Autor | Kevin Jared Hosein |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Peepal Tree Press Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-07-25 |
| Seitenanzahl | 200 |
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