Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an
unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the
great twentieth-century London novels. This Penguin Modern Classics
edition includes an introduction by Susheila Nasta. At Waterloo
Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the
boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick
Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets
Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes. In this
strange, cold and foggy city where the natives can be less than
friendly at the sight of a black face, has Galahad met his
Waterloo? But the irrepressible newcomer cannot be cast down. He
and all the other lonely new Londoners - from shiftless Cap to
Tolroy, whose family has descended on him from Jamaica - must try
to create a new life for themselves. As pessimistic 'old veteran'
Moses watches their attempts, they gradually learn to survive and
come to love the heady excitements of London. Sam Selvon (b. 1923)
was born in San Fernando, Trinidad. In 1950 Selvon left Trinidad
for the UK where after hard times of survival he established
himself as a writer with A Brighter Sun (1952), An Island is a
World (1955), The Lonely Londoners (1956), Ways of Sunlight (1957),
Turn Again Tiger (1958), I Hear Thunder (1963), The Housing Lark
(1965), The Plains of Caroni (1970), Moses Ascending (1975) and
Moses Migrating (1983). If you enjoyed The Lonely Londoners, you
might like Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark or Shiva Naipaul's
Fireflies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'His Lonely
Londoners has acquired a classics status since it appeared in 1956
as the definitive novel about London's West Indians' Financial
Times 'The unforgettable picaresque ... a vernacular comedy of
pathos' Guardian
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