- Slave traders, Slaves, African Americans, African American families
From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, prestige, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Caryl Phillips
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada, Vintage International, Carl Hanser Verlag
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780394280356
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 3 have read it and 11 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Europe central 200585% alikeBoth grave, prestige, epic.
L'oratorio de Noël 198784% alikeBoth grave, prestige, earnest.
Tod in Rom 196181% alikeBoth grave, prestige, earnest.
Let the great world spin 200981% alikeBoth grave, earnest, prestige.
Moby Dick 185179% alikeBoth grave, prestige, earnest.
Underworld 199779% alikeBoth grave, prestige, epic.
To Paradise 202278% alikeBoth grave, epic, prestige.
The Lost 200678% alikeBoth grave, prestige, earnest.
Atonement 200779% alikeFilm · Both grave, prestige, earnest.- Music · Both grave, epic, prestige.