Andrew Salkey

• Jan-1968
• / Literary
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• Jun-1999
• / General Fiction
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A lively illustrated masterpiece, this is the gripping story of a natural disaster and the 13-year-old Kingston boy who lives to tell the tale. While holed up in their home, Joe Brown, his sister Mary, and their parents wait for the eye of the hurric...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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A brave and pioneering treatment of sexual identity in Caribbean literature, this novel, first published in 1960, follows the fortunes of Johnnie Sobert, a Jamaican exile who works in London at a club that caters to black American servicemen. In flig...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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It is the dry season and the small village of Nain, Jamaica, is suffering. Its people, livestock, and crops have all been affected by the drought, and the outlook is bleak. But Seth Stone and his friends Man Boy, Benjie, Double Ugly, and Mango Head a...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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Ricky Thomas, his brother Doug, and his sister Polly spend their summer holidays in the coffee walk surrounding their grandparents' country home in Dallas, Jamaica. Above the children the leaves of the mango and coffee trees are drying, the thin asph...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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Gerald Manston and his friends Shifty and Fu lead pretty uneventful lives until the arrival of the “upheaval.” When the opportunity arrives for a better way of life, the poor folks of Kingston, Jamai...