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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781664500426
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ISBN: 9781664608252
| Runtime: | 18.84 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the 2003 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book
Winner of the 2002 Trillium Book Award
Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada • Commonwealth Writers Prize, Caribbean and Canada
When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women of the island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados) calls the police to confess to a crime, the result is a shattering all-night vigil that brings together elements of the island’s African past and the tragic legacy of colonialism in one epic sweep.
Set in the West Indies in the period following World War II, The Polished Hoe—an Essence bestseller and a Washington Post Book World Most Worthy Book of 2003—unravels over the course of twenty-four hours but spans the collective experience of a society characterized by slavery.
“The beauty of the novel … lies in the poetry of its telling and the marvelous voice of Mary-Mathilda … a marvelous creation. It bubbles with the voices of a now-vast literature of the African diaspora.”—Washington Post Book World
Author
Author Bio: Austin Clarke
Austin Clarke is a professor of literature and has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Williams, Duke, and the Universities of Texas and Indiana. He assisted in setting up a black studies program at
Yale in 1968, after which he became the cultural attaché of the Embassy of Barbados in Washington, DC. Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe, which won the Giller
Prize, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Trillium Prize, his work since 1964 includes nearly a dozen novels, several short-story collections, and a few memoirs. He lives in Toronto.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 18.84 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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