The Duppy
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781933354330
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Mar 1 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.23 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
This book is laugh-out-loud, hold-your-side funny. You don't even realize the message in this poignant and philosophical story until you stop laughing . . . Winkler is a wonderful writer with a sharp pen and amazing pedagogy. --Today (NBC), Cover to Cover
Baps, a Jamaican shopkeeper, drops dead unexpectedly one Saturday morning and finds himself being transported to heaven via a crowded minibus. Everything about Paradise that he had been raised to expect and believe, he finds to be utterly and completely wrong. For one thing, Paradise suspiciously resembles Jamaica. Baps has much to learn: about the afterlife, about God, about the distortions of established religion, and ultimately about humanity . . . With his characteristic outrageousness, and with more than a hint of postmodern playfulness, Winkler defies taboos and subverts conventional thinking in this entertaining, thought-provoking, and ultimately uplifting novel.
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