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2007 Longlist

Drums of My Flesh

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

In a central park in Ottawa’s Sandy Hill, Gabe, an immigrant from Guyana (South America), explores the past in the company of his young Canadian-born daughter. But this novel goes beyond the traditional innocence to reality plot, as it also embraces a quest for spiritual beingness in a compelling setting fraught with irony. Grounds shift as characters come fully to life; tropical and temperate zones merge; the past and present form intermittent shadows. Gabe’s story of growing up in an Indian family struggling to live traditionally in faraway Guyana, and Christian, Hindu and Muslim worlds come together, as the plot unravels, and we continually move back and forth faced with new realities, new awakenings.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Cyril
Dabydeen

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Canada
Original Language
English
Publisher
Tsar Publications
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