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_______________'Kerry Young is a standalone talent in the new emerging generation of writers from the Caribbean region. Read her if you want to know about the Caribbean'- Monique Roffey, winner of the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature'A vivid portrayal... Kerry Young's heartfelt, sparky and affecting debut novel is a chronicle of multicultural Jamaica, both in its cultural richness and in its strife and tensions'- Guardian'A pacy but absorbing saga of domestic struggle and gangland manoeuvring set against the violent backdrop of postwar Jamaican politics'- Independent on Sunday_______________From the author of the Costa and Commonwealth Prize-shortlisted PaoJamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Gloria's desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own.Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a

Author

Kerry Young

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408843369

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.03 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14