The True History of Paradise
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0755347048 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0755347048 Global Overview for this book
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Found myself outside Bookends with time to spare and bought this as one of 'buy one, get one half price' - two books for just over a fiver!
From back cover:
The history of our island is a history of hell, it is also a history of Grace terrestrial.....
Easter 1981. With Jamaica in a state of emergency, the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own. For Monica Landing, who had not spoken to her daughter for fifteen years, the death of Lana is the cruellest kind of loss. For Lana's younger sister, Jean, it is an incomprehensible tragedy. All she knows is that her beloved homeland, with its blue mountains and rich African rhythms, holds no future for her.
But flight means crossing a landscape where soldiers-turned-executioners and armed gangs rule. It means making her way through the memories that engulf her, with perhaps the only man she has ever loved by her side. In this time of apocalypse, past and present merge in Jean's remembrances of childhood: in the guiding visions that have always been with her; in the voices of her ancestors that tell of hardship and struggle, love and survival..... voices of both the living and the dead.
From back cover:
The history of our island is a history of hell, it is also a history of Grace terrestrial.....
Easter 1981. With Jamaica in a state of emergency, the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own. For Monica Landing, who had not spoken to her daughter for fifteen years, the death of Lana is the cruellest kind of loss. For Lana's younger sister, Jean, it is an incomprehensible tragedy. All she knows is that her beloved homeland, with its blue mountains and rich African rhythms, holds no future for her.
But flight means crossing a landscape where soldiers-turned-executioners and armed gangs rule. It means making her way through the memories that engulf her, with perhaps the only man she has ever loved by her side. In this time of apocalypse, past and present merge in Jean's remembrances of childhood: in the guiding visions that have always been with her; in the voices of her ancestors that tell of hardship and struggle, love and survival..... voices of both the living and the dead.
