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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Counting House
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Peepal Tree Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 5V23YQE
EAN: 9781845230159
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Beschreibung
Issues of caste, slavery, racism, and the immigrant experience in the early 19th century are addressed in this novel. Rohini and Vidia, a young married couple struggling for survival in a small, caste-ridden Indian village are seduced by a recruiter's persuasive talk of easy work and plentiful land. They sign up as indentured laborers to go to British Guiana and discover their harsh fate as "bound coolies" in a country only just emerging from the savage brutalities of slavery. In their problematic encounters with the Afro-Guyanese, hostile to immigrant labor, they confront the truths of their uprooted condition and learn to live with their fate.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- David Dabydeen
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2005
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 179