Buy this book on-line Espinet, Ramabai : Swinging BridgeHarper Perennial, Toronto, 2004 ISBN 0006485952
The Swinging Bridge is a moving story of race and displacement that carries the reader effortlessly from 19th-century India to the cane fields of Trinidad, and the contemporary urban centres of North America. Mona, a young Indo-Caribbean woman who grew up in Trinidad, must finally confront not only her own turbulent past, but the secrets of a winding family history begun on the Indian continent almost two centuries ago. A richly layered novel that is steeped in the lyrical rhythms of Caribbean life, The Swinging Bridge explores the immigrant experience with compassion and humour, giving voice to a heroine whose universal search for self is revealed in worlds marked by violence and shame, but also by love and respect. The fiction debut from a writer with a fresh and unique talent, The Swinging Bridge resonates long after the final pagE Ramabai Espinet was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. She is an Indo-Trinidadian poet, novelist, essayist, and critic from Trinidad and Tobago. She attended York University in Toronto, Canada before earning a Ph.D. at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.. Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Trade Paperback Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Espinet, Ramabai : Swinging Bridge. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, incunabula, collectables, out of print books and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |