As Flies to Whatless Boys (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Antoni
- 2019, 340 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AKASHIC BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 1617752002
- ISBN-13: 9781617752001
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2019
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Pressezitat
Included in World Literature Today’s Nota Benes, Summer 2014Winner of the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize
Longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Named one of the Best Caribbean Books of the Year by the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
“Robert Antoni gracefully combines layers of idealism, love, and a plague of the Black Vomit in this historical novel.” —World Literature Today
“Antoni . . . has written a novel epic in scope that . . . is driven by outbursts of fine writing.” —Booklist
“It brings the travails and small delights of Willy Tucker to the centre stage of our imaginings, asking only that we accompany him on this unforgettable voyage.” —Caribbean Beat
“Reminds us that storytelling is fundamental to the human condition . . . A contending classic of postcolonial literature.” —Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, Review/2014 OCM Bocas Prize Feature
“I have been hooked on Robert Antoni since his first novel, Divina Trace. His new one, As Flies to Whatless Boys, is a marvel of narrative and documents, which collide to create a book that is at times breathtaking and tragic and at other times laugh-out-loud hilarious.” —Edwidge Danticat, who selected As Flies to Whatless Boys as a Best Book of 2013 for the New Yorker’s Page-Turner Blog
“A bittersweet coming-of-age tale of tragedy, chicanery, high ideals, harsh realities, and the hard choice between love and family duty, As Flies to Whatless Boys is highly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review
“As Flies to Whatless Boys is a kind of complex word game, a historical narrative in a lilting Caribbean accent, wrapped around with an oddball love story in a wild form of English that seems to create
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itself as it goes along. In between, snippets of contemporary records provide foils for both these linguistic inventions.” —Historical Novel Society
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