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The Last Warner Woman

Autor Kei Miller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2011
'One woman's tragic tale, beautifully told' Independent on Sunday

FROM KEI MILLER, WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION

Once upon a time in Jamaica a young woman went somewhere that no one had visited for years.

It may have been nestled in a valley between the Stone Hill mountains of St Catherine, four rocking chairs on a veranda surveying a garden full of bougainvillea and vegetables.
Or perhaps it was merely a pastel-coloured house on an ordinary street in Spanish Town.

One thing everyone agrees on: this is the place that Adamine Bustamante was born.

When Adamine grows up she discovers she has the gift of 'warning': the power to both protect and terrify. But no one tells her that in England her prophecies of hurricanes and earthquakes will meet with a different kind of fear.

Now Adamine wants to tell her story.

But she must wrestle for the truth with 'Mr Writer Man', for he is taking her words and twisting them...

A ROLLERCOASTER OF A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG JAMAICAN WOMAN WITH A GIFT OF PROPHECY EMBARKING ON AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY

Praise for Kei Miller, winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature,
shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Green Carnation Prize and the Historical Writers Award:

'Miller's storytelling is superb' Sunday Times

'Language as clear as spring water' Observer

'Richly nuanced and empathetic' Guardian

'Truly panoramic' Sunday Telegraph
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780753828083
ISBN-10: 0753828081
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 130 x 197 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

One woman's tragic tale, beautifully told
A magical tale of beliefs and superstition...
A warm, wry tale with a metatextual twist.

Notă biografică

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1978, Kei Miller is the author of The Same Earth, winner of the Una Marson Prize for Literature, and Fear of Stones, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. His most recent poetry collection has been shortlisted for the Jonathan Llewelyn Rhys Prize, the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. In 2008, Miller was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. Miller currently divides his time between Jamaica and Scotland.