Fred D'aguiar

Broschiertes Buch

The Longest Memory

Beschreibung

The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North.

Autor

Fred D'Aguiar was born in London in 1960 and raised in Guyana and south-east London. He now lives in Florida, where he teaches English at the University of Miami. Author of four novels and four books of poetry, he has been awarded the University of Kent's T.S. Eliot prize for poetry, the Guyanese National Poetry Award and the Malcolm X prize for poetry. He also won the 1994 Whitbread First Novel Award and the David Higham Award for The Longest Memory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 110g
• ISBN-13: 9780099462217
• ISBN-10: 0099462214
• Artikelnr.: 21161416