Cyril Dabydeen

• Aug-1988
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• Jan-1996
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The world of the West Indian defies boundaries, as disclosed with poignant realism in these fine stories set in Canada, the West Indies and New York. Dabydeen uses a language and style distinctly his own, combined with humour and open-eyed wonder, to...

• 1996
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• Jan-2000
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These closely observed stories, with their gritty poetic descriptions and finely ironic twists, confront Dabydeen?s Asian and Caribbean-South American identity with his experience of life in Canada, where he has lived for over three decades....

• Jan-2001
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• Oct-2001
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Cyril Dabydeen’s new collection of stories, North of the Equator, looks at the polarities of tropical and temperate places. Acclaimed novelist Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners) says, "Dabydeen is in the vanguard of contemporary short-story writers,...

• Jan-2005
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In a central park in Ottawa's Sandy Hill, Gabe, an immigrant from Guyana (South America), explores the past in the company of his young Canadian-born daughter. But this novel goes beyond the traditional innocence to reality plot, as it also embraces ...

• Jun-2007
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A finely observed comedy of manners, this novel presents an imaginative and poetic play on the symbols of Hinduism in a secular and cosmopolitan society. Devan, a teacher of Hinduism to rural Indians, finds his life turned upside down when he leaves ...

• Jan-2010
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• Feb-2012
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Caribbean literature has always been exciting and diverse, including over the past decades some of the world?s most highly regarded writers. This new anthology, Beyond Sangre Grande, brings together a contemporary selection in English from some of th...

• Dec-2013
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From the jungles of Guyana to the urban jungle of Ottawa, Cyril Dabydeen's My Multi-Ethnic Friends & Other Stories highlights the struggles of immigrant life in a society that talks multiculturalism but doesn't always walk it. The characters straddle...

• Apr-2018
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Critics have called Dabydeen a "short story master," and in this latest collection, his stories of  life in Guyana are interspersed with the urban landscape of Canada where Dabydeen has lived for decades. His stories are distinctive with a strong n...

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