Cereus Blooms at Night
by:
Shani Mootoo (author)
Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, this haunting and evocative debut novel unveils the mystery surrounding the aging Mala Ramchandin--a suspected murderess--and the tempestuous history of her family.
Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, this haunting and evocative debut novel unveils the mystery surrounding the aging Mala Ramchandin--a suspected murderess--and the tempestuous history of her family.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780802116338 (0802116337)
Publish date: September 1st 1998
Publisher: Grove Pr
Pages no: 249
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism,
Glbt,
Queer,
Canada
This multiple award nominee from the mid-1990s was not familiar to me until I found it on the "100 Novels That Make You Proud to be Canadian" CBC list. Like many books on that list, this one is Canadian-ish, in that Mootoo was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad and at the time of publication was d...
(Review originally posted on my livejournal account: xhttp://intoyourlungs.livejournal.com/35223.html)Why I Read It: Required reading for my Gender and Sexuality in Literature class.I had never heard of this book before finding out it was an assigned text for one of my classes, which is kind of sad ...
I read this book over the course of about three days. The generally smoothly written story, in spite of some problems of organization which betray a first novel, drew me through it. In spite of some terrible scenes of family violence (I admit that sometimes I skimmed this) it is not a depressing sto...
8 years ago
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