Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Repenters
Set against Caribbean society, this short story traces the emotional knots around forgiveness and survival. An individual story and a community history overlap throughout.
Work Information
Forgiveness and survival are placed at the center of the story with equal weight.
The story condenses violence and hope within a compact form. Social change and personal choice remain in tension until the end.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Pr Ltd
- Published
- 2016-08-01
- Pages
- 168 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 2.29 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781845233310
- ISBN-10
- 184523331X
- Price
- 2485 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature When the infant Jordan Sant is taken to the St Asteria Home for Children after the murder of his parents, he sets out on a journey that is a constant struggle between his best and worst selves. One relationship, with the young nun the children call Mouse, awakens the possibilities of love and hope, but when Mouse abandons her calling and leaves the home, the world thereafter becomes a darker place. When, barely a teenager, he runs away from the home to scuffle for a living in the frightening underbelly of Port of Spain, Jordan reaches the lower depths of both Trinidadian society and himself.
Kevin Jared Hosein currently resides in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the 2015 Caribbean regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his entry, ?The King of Settlement 4. In 2013, he wrote and illustrated his first book, Littletown Secrets, which was named the best childrens book of 2013 by the Trinidad Guardian. He is also featured in collections such as Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, Jewels of the Caribbean, the upcoming Peekash speculative fiction anthology, and Akashics Duppy Thursdays. He was shortlisted twice for the Small Axe Prize. His poem, ?The Wait is So, So Long was adapted into a short film which was awarded a Gold Key at the New York-based Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.