Island Songs

Island Songs
Alex Wheatle
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NZ$ 29.99
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NZ$ 23.99
Paperback
h196 x 128mm - 336pg
15 Sep 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529422597
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"She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into ? the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world." But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendents of the fierce Maroon people, do get to see the world, and 'Island Songs' is their story. Growing up in rural Claremont, working amid the hustle and bustle, lawn parties and 'houses of joy' in Trenchtown, the two sisters take a chance and move to England with their husbands, that far-off land of riches, where they settle down to motherhood amongst the jazz cafes and bleak streets of Brixton. A beautiful evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, and equivocal status as an overlooked outpost of the dwindling British Empire,' Island Songs' is an epic of love, diaspora, and sorely tested family loyalties. Many stories are told, but many more secrets are never revealed.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529422597
Published: 15 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Arcadia Books
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 240g
Pages: 336

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