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Life and Death of Sylvia, the PB
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Artikel-Nr:
9781845231200
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.06.2010
Seiten:
318
Autor:
Edgar Mittelholzer
Gewicht:
431 g
Format:
203x135x28 mm
Serie:
Caribbean Modern Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Edgar Mittelholzer is the author of numerous novels, including My Bones and My Flute and A Swarthy Boy, his autobiography.
Telling the tragic story of a young Sylvia Ann Russell, this novel focuses on the dilemmas of a young woman of mixed race in 1930s Guyana. After the death of her English father, Sylvia constantly struggles for economic survival and against attempts to exploit her sexually. Impossibly torn between her desire for emotional closeness and the integrity of her independence, Sylvia willfully accepts her dark fate when she falls ill. This brilliant and moving novel explores the plight of a Caribbean woman who demands more meaning from her life than her society will give her.