0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories

Buy Now

The Whale House and Other Stories (Paperback) Loot Price: R242
Discovery Miles 2 420
The Whale House and Other Stories (Paperback): Sharon Millar

The Whale House and Other Stories (Paperback)

Sharon Millar

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R242 Discovery Miles 2 420

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

A pathologist is asked to lie about a boy killed on government orders; a sister tries to make peace with the parents of the white American girl her brother has murdered; a gangster makes his posthumous lament: Trinidad in all its social tumult is ever present in these stories, but so too are the lives of those with private griefs: a woman mourning the still-birth of her baby; a young mother with cancer facing her mortality. Millar's characters come intensely alive at points of crisis, of existential threat.The stories in this collection range wide: across different ethnic communities; across rural and urban settings; across the moneyed elite (and illicit new wealth) and the poor scrabbling for survival; locals and expatriates; the certainties of rational knowledge and the mysteries of the unseen and the uncanny. Different locations in Trinidad are brought to the reader through a precise and sensuous mapping of the country's fauna and flora.Characters thread their way through different stories, but what ties the collection together is Sharon Millar's distinctively personal voice: cool, unsentimental and empathetic. If irony is the only way to inscribe contemporary Trinidad, there is also room for the possibility of redemption.

General

Imprint: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2015
Authors: Sharon Millar
Dimensions: 206 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 978-1-84523-249-8
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
Promotions
LSN: 1-84523-249-6
Barcode: 9781845232498

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

For You, I'd Steal A Goat - Short…
Niq Mhlongo Paperback  (1)
R325 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050
One Life - Short Stories
Joanne Hichens, Karina M. Szczurek Paperback R320 R284 Discovery Miles 2 840
A Coat Of Many Colours - Short Stories
Fred Khumalo Paperback R303 Discovery Miles 3 030
Opstokers, Fopdossers en Tweegatjakkalse
Herman Lategan Paperback R316 Discovery Miles 3 160
If You Keep Digging
Keletso Mopai Paperback  (1)
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610
Hauntings
Niq Mhlongo Paperback R250 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310
Vrydagaand
Elsa Winckler Paperback R339 Discovery Miles 3 390
The Family Lawyer - 3-in-One Collection
James Patterson Paperback  (1)
R275 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540
Tell Tale
Jeffrey Archer Paperback  (3)
R468 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560
Joburg Noir
Niq Mhlongo Paperback  (2)
R292 Discovery Miles 2 920
Furies - Stories Of The Wicked, Wild And…
Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, … Paperback R475 Discovery Miles 4 750
White Chalk - Stories
Terry-Ann Adams Paperback  (1)
R220 R203 Discovery Miles 2 030

See more

Partners