'One woman's tragic tale, beautifully told' Independent on Sunday
FROM KEI MILLER, WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION
Once upon a time in Jamaica a young woman went somewhere that no one had visited for years.
It may have been nestled in a valley between the Stone Hill mountains of St Catherine, four rocking chairs on a veranda surveying a garden full of bougainvillea and vegetables.
Or perhaps it was merely a pastel-coloured house on an ordinary street in Spanish Town.
One thing everyone agrees on: this is the place that Adamine Bustamante was born.
When Adamine grows up she discovers she has the gift of 'warning': the power to both protect and terrify. But no one tells her that in England her prophecies of hurricanes and earthquakes will meet with a different kind of fear.
Now Adamine wants to tell her story.
But she must wrestle for the truth with 'Mr Writer Man', for he is taking her words and twisting them...
A ROLLERCOASTER OF A NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG JAMAICAN WOMAN WITH A GIFT OF PROPHECY EMBARKING ON AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY
Praise for Kei Miller, winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature,
shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Green Carnation Prize and the Historical Writers Award:
'Miller's storytelling is superb' Sunday Times
'Language as clear as spring water' Observer
'Richly nuanced and empathetic' Guardian
'Truly panoramic' Sunday Telegraph
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One woman's tragic tale, beautifully told (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)
A magical tale of beliefs and superstition... (HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER)
A warm, wry tale with a metatextual twist. (SUNDAY HERALD)
From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a novel about a young Jamaican woman with a gift of prophecy embarks on a journey that will take her from a leper colony, to revivalist meetings, then to England.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Adamine Bustamante is born in Jamaica, inside one of the islands last leper colonies. When she goes to a Revivalist Church, she discovers her gift of warning. But no one has bothered to warn Adamine that when she migrates to England her prophecies of hurricanes and earthquakes will no longer be respected. People will think she is crazy and lock her away in a mental hospital.Now an old woman, Adamine wants to tell her own story but she must compete with Mr Writer Man the novelist who is twisting her words for his own book and Adamine doesn't know why.In a story about magic and migration, about stories and storytelling, we discover it is never one person who owns a story, or who has the right to tell it. From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a novel about a young Jamaican woman with a gift of prophecy embarks on a journey that will take her from a leper colony, to revivalist meetings, then to England. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780753828083
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