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Set in nineteenth Century Guyana, this novel follows the lives of Indian indentured labourers as they encounter the truths about their abandoned condition. It narrates the experiences of an Indian couple, Rohinia and Vidia, growing up and getting married in a small Indian village before setting off for a new life in colonial Guyana.

Set in the early nineteenth century The Counting House follows the lives of Rohini and Vidia, a young married couple struggling for survival in a small, caste-ridden Indian village who are seduced by the recruiter’s talk of easy work and plentiful land if they sign up as indentured labourers to go to British Guiana. There, however, they discover a harsh fate as ‘bound coolies’ in a country barely emerging from the savage brutalities of slavery. Having abandoned their families and a country that seems increasingly like a paradise, they must come to terms with their problematic encounters with an Afro-Guyanese population hostile to immigrant labour, with rebels such as Kampta who has made an early abandonment of Indian village culture, and confront the truths of their uprooted condition. »Excellent… Presented with poetic precision, this novel succeeds as both a compelling story and a beautifully sustained piece of writing. » Sean Coughlan, The Times. »Beautifully written… Dabydeen’s grace, as a poet turned novelist, is to give his characters’ imaginations and inner lives voices in prose… This is a marvelous novel » Michele Roberts, Independent on Sunday.David Dabydeen was born in Guyana. He has published six acclaimed novels and three collections of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Langue

en

Version

Broché

Date de sortie initiale

30 novembre 2005

Nombre de pages

157

Illustrations

Non

Traduction

Titre original

Counting House

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

David Dabydeen

Editeur principal

Peepal Tree Pr Ltd

Informations sur le fabricant

Nom du fabricant

Arachne Press

Adresse électronique du fabricant

[email protected]

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Les autres informations du fabricant ne sont actuellement pas disponibles

Autres spécifications

Hauteur de l’emballage

208 mm

Hauteur du produit

13 mm

Largeur d’emballage

137 mm

Largeur du produit

140 mm

Livre d‘étude

Non

Longueur d’emballage

14 mm

Longueur du produit

203 mm

Poids de l’emballage

195 g

Police de caractères extra large

Non

Édition

Revised ed.

EAN

EAN

9781845230159

Sécurité des produits

Opérateur économique responsable dans l’UE

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Disponibilité

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Langue

Anglais

Type de livre

Paperback