Salt by Jeremy Page
Set in Trinidad, the story is launched by the mythical tale of Guinea John, an ancestor of Blackpeople, who put two corn cobs under his arm pits and flew from a clifftop, away from the scene of his enslavement, back to Africa. His descendants have eaten salt, grown too heavy to fly, and cannot follow him. They are left to wrestle with their future on the island. Now, more than one hundred years after Emancipation, like all the people who share the island - Asians, Africans, and Europeans - they need to be weaned from old captivities and welcomed into the New World. Addressing the challenge of this liberating welcome are Alford George, schoolteacher turned politician; Bango Durity, laborer and activist; and a swirl of unforgettable men and women - minor characters of major proportions - telling their stories in their own voices; all striving with passion and wit to make sense of their lives in the still-young country where the roles of enslaved and landowner still linger, but the sky, the sea, every green leaf and tangle of vines sing freedom.
Page, Jeremy: - Jeremy Page is the author of several collections of poems and, since 1983, editor of the bi-annual literary journal 'The Frogmore Papers'. He has also written two plays: 'Loving Psyche' and 'Verrall of the White Hart', which were performed in Bremen (2010) and Lewes (2014) respectively. He lives close to the South Downs in Sussex and is currently Director of the Centre for Language Studies at the University of Sussex.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670038688 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670038687 |
| Title | Salt |
| Author | Jeremy Page |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
| Year published | 2007-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 322 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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