Overview
Region
Caribbean
Guyana
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
A Guyanese engineer working on a sea-wall project in an English village becomes obsessed with his landlady's past, uncovering layers of colonial history and longing, a meditative novel about memory, belonging, and empire's weight on daily life.
Literary Significance
Dabydeen is one of the most accomplished Caribbean novelists and poets writing in Britain