Overview
Region
Caribbean
Trinidad and Tobago
Era
Post-colonial
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
The story of Caribbean migrants to post-war London — Moses, Galahad, Cap, Big City — navigating racism, poverty, and loneliness. Written in a lyrical Trinidad dialect, it invented a new prose voice.
Literary Significance
One of the most important Caribbean novels; invented the dialect prose style that influenced a generation of Black British writers