| #551274 in Books | Beacon Press | 2004-06-15 | 2004-06-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.35 x5.50l,.41 | File Name: 0807083712 | 176 pages |
||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Choreography of Caribbean Language|By IsolaBlue|Kempadoo is a true poet, and although BUXTON SPICE is billed as a novel, it is really more a collection of dances in which the poetics of language play a great part. With more and more literature appearing that does not follow the tight storylines of old, perhaps it is time for us to come up with another word to describe books|.com |Born in London, but raised in a flyspeck village in Guyana, Oonya Kempadoo has now preserved her youth in exquisite amber. Buxton Spice will no doubt be compared to the work of Jamaica Kincaid, and the analogy is actually an instructive one (beyon
Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by'a writer to watch and to enjoy.'*
Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity o...
