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Disappearance
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- Book Synopsis
- Talks about a Guyanese engineer working on a cliff reclamation project in rural Kent. This novel contains intertextual play with Conrad, Wilson Harris and V S Naipaul, and investigates the buried centre of Empire deep in England and the ironies of the difficult but hopeful multicultural transformation of British society.
- About The Author
- David Dabydeen was born in Guyana. He was sent to England at the age of twelve, and was in care until he was sixteen. He read English at Cambridge, and has published seven earlier novels and three collections of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781845230142
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press, (20 November 2005)
- Number of Pages
- 157
- Weight
- 210 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 207 x 137 x 14 mm
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