書誌事項

The housing lark

Sam Selvon ; foreword by Caryl Phillips ; introduction by Dohra Ahmad

(Penguin classics)(Penguin books, . Literature)

Penguin, 2020

  • : [pbk.]

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 2

この図書・雑誌をさがす

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark explores the Caribbean migrant experience in the "Mother Country" by following a group of friends as they attempt to buy a home together. Despite encountering a racist and predatory rental market, the friends scheme, often comically, to find a literal and figurative place of their own. Will these motley folks, male and female, Black and Indian, from Trinidad and Jamaica, dreamers, hustlers, and artists, be able to achieve this milestone of upward mobility? Unique and wonderful, comic and serious, cynical and tenderhearted, The Housing Lark poses the question of whether their "lark," or quixotic idea of finding a home, can ever become a reality. Kittitian-British novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips contributes a foreword, while postcolonial literature scholar Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction.

「Nielsen BookData」 より

関連文献: 2件中  1-2を表示

詳細情報

ページトップへ