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The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries
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ISBN10: 0394726332
ISBN13: 9780394726335
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Sep 12 1984
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.83
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780394726335
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Sep 12 1984
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.83
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants--black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve, between natives and foreigners, black and whites, haves and have-nots, keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power. An important and moving book . . . Marshall is as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people, she makes better sense of both.--Village Voice
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