John Hearne was one of the first wave of West Indian writers to
achieve international recognition in the 1950s and the first
Jamaican author published by Faber and Faber. He was a contemporary
of V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Roger Mais, Andrew Salkey and
Samuel Selvon. Though Hearne's novels are viewed as foundational
Caribbean literature, they did not have the same traction as those
of his contemporaries and his work is largely out of print. This
collection brings together Hearne's short stories in a single
volume for the first time and makes his writing available to a new
generation of readers. Hearne felt his duty as a writer was to
examine fundamental human truths rather than social politics or a
nationalistic agenda, and his short stories are exemplars of this
intention. From his first published piece, the fable "The Mongoose
Who Came to the City", to his unpublished last story "Reckonings",
this collection of critically acclaimed short stories is essential
reading for any serious student of Caribbean literature or any
reader seeking a broader understanding of the culture of the region
in the early days of independence.
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