Sam Selvon was born in San Fernando (Trinidad) in 1923 and worked in his homeland as a wireless operator and reporter. In 1950 he left Trinidad for the UK, where he established himself as a writer with A Brighter Sun (1952). Many other books followed, including his best-known novel, The Lonely Londoners (1956), and its two sequels, Moses Ascending (1975) and Moses Migrating (1983). He moved to Canada in the late 1970s and died in 1994.
7 Ebooks bởi Sam Selvon
Sam Selvon: Moses Ascending
Sam Selvon s Moses Ascending depicts West Indian Immigration in England. Moses, a Trinidadian who has been in England for some years now represents immigrants who come from all corners of the world …
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Sam Selvon: Lonely Londoners
Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience – and one of the great twentieth-century London novels At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals …
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Sam Selvon: Housing Lark
‘Irreverent, spirited … a seriously funny novel’ New York Review of Books Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak – and a place to call his …
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Sam Selvon: Ways of Sunlight
‘A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards … for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive’ Sunday Times’You could be lonely as hell in the city, then …
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Sam Selvon: Lonely Londoners
London will do for you for now And I will do for London.London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ‘Sir Galahad’ Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a …
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Sam Selvon: Lonely Londoners
London will do for you for now And I will do for London.London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ‘Sir Galahad’ Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a …
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