- Fiction, Jamaica, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Literary
"In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.
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- Author
- Kei Miller
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101974094
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