Austin Clarke

• May-1987
• / General Fiction

• Sep-1998
• / General Fiction

This is the first book in Austin Clarke's acclaimed trilogy about a group of West Indian domestics, their friends, lovers, spouses and employers living in Toronto. In rich, exuberant language, the novel illuminates the world of Bernice Leach, a Barba...

• 1999
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• Jun-2003
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When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women of the island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados) calls the police to confess to a crime, the result is a shattering all-night vigil that brings together elements of the island's African past an...

• Jun-2008
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A compelling collection exploring the lives of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in Canada. These eight short stories delve into the experiences of displaced persons living in contemporary society, marked by a richness of language and rhythm that is authenti...

• Sep-2008
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Poignantly capturing the sorrow and torment of the dispossessed, this collection of stories focuses on the contemporary experiences of urban dwellers longing for a place to call home. Private lives and intimate pains are made public, and the rawness ...

• Sep-2009
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At the news of her son BJ's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison, a maid at the local university, collapses in her basement apartment. For four days and nights she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that becomes a rivetin...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction

In this collection, award-winning author Austin Clarke has caught, in his characters, a sweet longing for youth and an anxiety-stricken rage at old age; an immigrant's longing for a placid, lost home and his lust for a new high-speed motorcar life; a...

• Oct-2020
• / General Fiction

Now available after over four decades, the first collection of short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian luminary Austin Clarke -- winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Trillium Bo...