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The Ventriloquist's Tale Полин Мелвилл
ISBN: 978-0747535140 Год издания: 1998 Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Язык: Английский The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying culture and of the rebellious nature of love. -
Eating Air Полин Мелвилл
Издательство: Telegram Books What could a ballerina, an anarchist, an Islamic terrorist and a banker possibly have in common? Our narrator, the enigmatic, piano-playing, rum drinking, Baron S knows. And he's ready to tell. Moving between the seventies and the present-day, between London, Italy and Surinam, Pauline Melville marshals a brilliant cast of characters to tell an explosive tale of greed, passion and revolutionary ideals. -
Shape-Shifter Полин Мелвилл
ISBN: 0679404384 Год издания: 1991 Издательство: Pantheon Язык: Английский A collection of short stories dealing with post-colonial life in the Caribbean, notably in the author's native Guyana, as well as of some stories set in London. Many of the characters, most of them displaced people from former colonies struggling to come to terms with a new life in Britain, attempt to find an identity, to reconcile their past and to escape from the restlessness hinted at in the title.