London will do for you for now And I will do for London.London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry Sir Galahad Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through Moses Aloettas door only to...Loe edasi...
London will do for you for now And I will do for London.London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry Sir Galahad Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through Moses Aloettas door only to...Loe edasi...
A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive Sunday TimesYou could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody...Loe edasi...
Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel New York Review of BooksSitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up...Loe edasi...
Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novelsAt Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready t...Loe edasi...
Sam Selvon s Moses Ascending depicts West Indian Immigration in England. Moses, a Trinidadian who has been in England for some years now represents immigrants who come from all corners of the world to seek a better life. Like many immigrants he is ha...Loe edasi...
