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David Dabydeen
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Region

Caribbean

Guyana

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

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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.

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Dabydeen is one of the most accomplished Caribbean novelists and poets writing in Britain

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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. Dabydeen is one of the most accomplished Caribbean novelists and poets writing in Britain

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