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The Book of Jamaica by RUSSELL BANKS, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Book of Jamaica by RUSSELL BANKS, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Book of Jamaica by RUSSELL BANKS, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Book of Jamaica by RUSSELL BANKS, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Size: 0.8 x 8 x 11.04

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A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror—the works." — Chicago Sun-TimesIn The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its ever-present racial conflicts. His narrator, a thirty-five-year-old college professor from New Hampshire, goes to Jamaica to write a novel and soon becomes embroiled in the struggles between whites and Blacks. He is especially interested in an ancient tribe called the Maroons, descendants of the Ashanti, who had been enslaved by the Spanish and then fought the British in a hundred-year war. Despite this history of oppression, the Maroons have managed to maintain a relatively autonomous existence in Jamaica. Partly out of guilt and an intellectual sense of social responsibility, Banks's narrator gets involved in reuniting two clans who have been feuding for generations. Unfortunately, his attempt ends in disaster, and the narrator must deal with his feelings of alienation, isolation, and failure. | The Book of Jamaica by RUSSELL BANKS, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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