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Letters to a Writer of Color (Paperback): Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro Letters to a Writer of Color (Paperback)
Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro; Contributions by Madeleine Thien, Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo
R447 R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Save R79 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wife (Paperback): Tiphanie Yanique Wife (Paperback)
Tiphanie Yanique
R272 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R53 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The title of Wife is both ironic and deeply serious. There are wittily sharp poems on the gender inequalities and potential prisons of marriage, that are in dialogue with poems that celebrate the physical joys of intimacy and poems that explore the processes of self-creation that take place in the closeness to the male other. Poems that are cutting about male self-deceptions and arrogations of power speak to poems that display a deep sensitivity to the aloneness of the embattled male psyche. This is not verse in the confessional mode, but poems that take on other voices, other histories and explore the relationship between experiences and the way we mythologise them. These spare, elegant poems are not only intensely body focused and attentive to the minutiae of domestic space, but that they make connections to the worlds of family, church, village and nation - and even, in a poem the references the parable of the wise and foolish virgins, to the soul. Their context is a Virgin Islands' past, a Black American present, and an enlarged human future.

How To Escape From A Leper Colony - A Novella and Stories (Paperback): Tiphanie Yanique How To Escape From A Leper Colony - A Novella and Stories (Paperback)
Tiphanie Yanique
R468 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R77 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice
"For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen. "

The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real.
Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, "How to Escape from a Leper Colony "is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Conde before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.

Monster In The Middle (Paperback): Tiphanie Yanique Monster In The Middle (Paperback)
Tiphanie Yanique
R449 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R78 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Monster In The Middle - A Novel (Hardcover): Tiphanie Yanique Monster In The Middle - A Novel (Hardcover)
Tiphanie Yanique
R654 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R121 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Land Of Love And Drowning - A Novel (Paperback): Tiphanie Yanique Land Of Love And Drowning - A Novel (Paperback)
Tiphanie Yanique
R466 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R77 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck are two sisters and their half brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them.

Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic, set against the emergence of Saint Thomas into the modern world. Uniquely imagined, with echoes of Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, and the author’s own Caribbean family history, the story is told in a language and rhythm that evoke an entire world and way of life and love. Following the Bradshaw family through sixty years of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, love affairs, curses, magical gifts, loyalties, births, deaths, and triumphs.

Monster In The Middle (Paperback, International edition): Tiphanie Yanique Monster In The Middle (Paperback, International edition)
Tiphanie Yanique
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Paperback): Catherine Barnett, Tiphanie Yanique Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Paperback)
Catherine Barnett, Tiphanie Yanique
R586 R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Save R62 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Poetry. Anthology. In this unprecedented anthology, acclaimed poets from around the world select poems from their countries of origin to share with a wider audience. Readers will find eloquence, urgency, and idiosyncrasy, poems all in English but springing from drastically varied voices, geographies, and histories. Using an artist's rather than a scholar's approach, these poems--chosen out of love and admiration by practicing poets--show the vitality of English deployed by revered and emerging poets in Ghana (selected by Kwame Dawes), India (by Sudeep Sen), South Africa (by Rustum Kozain), the Caribbean (by Ishion Hutchinson and five other Caribbean poets), Canada (by Todd Swift), and the Antipodes: New Zealand (by Hinemoana Baker) and Australia (by Les Murray). Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute poets in the world Series.Ilya Kaminsky, Series Editor.

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