作品情報

赦しと生存が、同じ重さで物語の中心に置かれる。

共同体の中の暴力や希望を、比較的短い形式に濃縮した作品。社会の変化と個人の選択が、最後まで緊張関係を保つ。

書籍情報

出版社

Peepal Tree Pr Ltd

発売日

2016-08-01

ページ数

168ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.97 x 2.29 x 20.96 cm

ISBN-13

9781845233310

ISBN-10

184523331X

価格

2485 JPY

カテゴリ

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 children’s 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 Akashic’s 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.

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