A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of
colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the
experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story
is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings -
Jamaica, England, America - and encounters people who affect her
search for place and self.
The structure of No Telephone to Heaven combines naturalism and
lyricism, and traverses space and time, dream and reality, myth and
history, reflecting the fragmentation of the protagonist, who
nonetheless seeks wholeness and connection. In this deply poetic
novel there exist several levels: the world Clare encounters, and a
world of which she only gradually becomes aware - a world of
extreme poverty, the real Jamaica, not the Jamaica of the middle
class, not the Jamaica of the tourist. And Jamaica - almost a
character in the book - is described in terms of extraordinary
beauty, coexisting with deep human tragedy.
The violence that rises out of extreme oppression, the divided
loyalties of a colonized person, sexual dividedness, and the
dividedness of a person neither white nor black - all of these are
truths that Clare must face. Overarching all the themes in this
exceptionally fine novel is the need to become whole, and the
decisions and the courage demanded to achieve that wholeness.
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