描述
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.
‘Epic and frequently astonishing’
The Times
‘Its resonance continues to deepen’
New York Times
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.
‘Epic and frequently astonishing’
The Times
‘Its resonance continues to deepen’
New York Times
书籍详情
格式
Kindle
页数
256 页
语言
英语
已发布
2月 15, 2011
出版商
Vintage Digital
版本
3 个版本
ISBN-10
1409016943
ISBN-13
9781409016946