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From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious formally inventiveand intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It beginsin a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness which forces a father tosell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices andnarrative techniques Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river thatseparates continents and centuries. Phillipss characters include a freedslave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s a pioneer womanseeking refuge from the white mans justice on the Colorado frontier and anAfricanAmerican G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during WorldWar II. Together these voices make up a manytongued chorus of common memoryand one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives ofblack people severed from their homeland. «
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