Light Falling on Bamboo

Light Falling on Bamboo
Lawrence Scott
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 488pg
4 Jul 2013 UK
9781781251584
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This is an epic interracial period drama on a Caribbean island. After a nineteenth-century gentleman's education in Europe, landscape artist Michel Jean Cazabon returns home to Trinidad just after the island's slaves have been emancipated. The artist, used to life in post-revolutionary Paris, struggles to try to find a place for himself in the island community still in the grip of colonial powers. In order to survive as an artist, Michel takes on commissions from the old guard. But as he appreciates the beauty of his subjects under the dappled light of the bamboo, his sensuous desires and chequered past rise up and threaten to ruin him. This book is suitable for readers of Andrea Levy's "The Long Song" and Amanda Smyth's "Black Rock".
"* 'What a powerful writer he is - unfashionably leisured and completely self-confident. A Caribbean One Hundred Years of Solitude. It certainly won't just go away' - Fay Wheldon * 'Rare and magical. The first of its kind. Wonderful evocative language; complete emotional range; a loving, touching insight into human and family relationships' - Sam Selvon * 'Impressively written work by a very gifted writer. Subtle but compelling, strange and intriguing fiction with its layers of incurable pathos' - Wilson Harris"
Lawrence Scott was born on a sugarcane estate in Trinidad. After coming to England to train as a Benedictine monk, he studied at Oxford and became a teacher. He has since been active in the promotion of Caribbean literature, through New Beacon Books, Wasafiri and British universities. Three of his books have been listed for Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He divides his time between London and Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Status: Out of Print
ISBN-13: 9781781251584
Published: 4 Jul 2013
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tindal Street Press
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 488
Dewey: 813.54

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