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Black Shack Alley
A NOVEL
Joseph Zobel,
translated and with an introduction by Keith Q. Warner
This work of compelling lyrical unity tells the story of growing up
black in the colonial world of Martinique.
First published in French in 1950, La rue cases-nègres was
inspired by Richard Wright’s Black Boy. The movie adaptation,
honored at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, has been released in the
U.S. as Sugar Cane Alley.
Joseph Zobel was born in 1915 in Petit-Bourg, Martinique. He
has published many collections of stories and a volume of verse,
Incantation pour un retour au pays natal. His novel La fète à Paris is
the continuation of La rue cases-nègre.
1980/184 pages
ISBN: 0-91447-868-0 pb £10.95 / $14.50
God’s Angry Babies
Ian G. Strachan
A NOVEL
“[Strachan] has a tremendous gift and a voice that cannot easily be dismissed
or ignored; and while we may pretend to be shocked by what he
has said, we may privately admit that he has merely said what many of
us have been dying to say all along.” —KRISTA WALKES
This coming-of-age novel by the accomplished Bahamian writer
Ian G. Strachan is set against the backdrop of the internal struggles
of a Caribbean island nation.
1997/296 pages LC: 96-7474
ISBN: 0-89410-828-X hc £26.50 / $35
ISBN: 0-89410-829-8 pb £12.95 / $16.95
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