The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island, the timeless people are its inhabitants -- black, poor, inextricably linked to the their past enslavement. The advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, and the tense, ambivalent relationships...
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The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island, the timeless people are its inhabitants -- black, poor, inextricably linked to the their past enslavement. The advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, and the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolves -- between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 472
Edition language: English
This was difficult to read. Perhaps all post-colonial novels should be. Marshall fills her novel with contradictions. Lush, evocative prose about the sea and landscape of the Caribbean is followed by the white heat of the sun with a long working day ahead. With harsh clarity her prose considers the ...
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