Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable
account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century
London novels. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an
introduction by Susheila Nasta. At Waterloo Station, hopeful new
arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start
afresh in 1950s London.
There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has
already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver
and shows him the ropes. In this strange, cold and foggy city where the
natives can be less than friendly at the sight of a black face, has
Galahad met his Waterloo? But the irrepressible newcomer cannot be cast
down. He and all the other lonely new Londoners - from shiftless Cap to
Tolroy, whose family has descended on him from Jamaica - must try to
create a new life for themselves.
As pessimistic 'old veteran'
Moses watches their attempts, they gradually learn to survive and come
to love the heady excitements of London. Sam Selvon (b. 1923) was born
in San Fernando, Trinidad.
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
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