ASIN: B00RMYTZZI
Publisher: Intanjible Publishing
Pages: 113
First published in 1999, Sweet Like Saltwater is considered by some to be a modern Caribbean classic. It is a collection of short stories about migration and belonging. Widely critically acclaimed, it was awarded the national book award of the nation of Guyana (the “Guyana Prize”). It is still taught today in literary classes in colleges and high schools around the world. These stories --about a fanatical cricket fan in rural colonial Guyana, an immigrant girl on the run on a Canadian backroad, a terrifying aquatic encounter in a faraway planetary colony of the future, a meeting of former neighbours on the banks of the Hudson-- probe with acuity and a wry sense of humour the very modern condition of human exile and the search for freedom and belonging.REVIEWS:"Deonandan's prose is quirky and engaging . . . at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive..." -The Globe and Mail "An ...
