- Fiction, Immigrants, West Indians, Social conditions
Vignettes from the lives of Caribbean Commonwealth citizens who've moved to London.
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Character-led, prestige, contemplative and cool.
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Samuel Selvon
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 138
- Publisher
- Penguin, Passeggiata Pr, Longman
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780582785175
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