Overview
Region

Caribbean

Barbados

Era

Post-colonial

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

About This Work

Set in San Cristobal, a fictional Caribbean island at independence. Fola, a middle-class woman, attends a Vodun ceremony and is transformed, setting off events that culminate in revolution.

Literary Significance

Lamming's most politically ambitious novel; a meditation on the relationship between folk culture and political liberation

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