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Crossing the River

Paperback • 1993 • English

Crossing the River

By Caryl Phillips

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries. Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia...Show more

Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction
Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration
Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages

Book details

ISBN

9780679757948

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

1993

Language

English

Original title

Crossing the River

Format

Paperback

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Paperback · 1993

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