'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of
your skin'Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab
catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His
sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English
landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is
watched over by the Mother Country.
Yet gradually, G. finds
himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the
apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble,
revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer
to a life-changing decision.
Lyrical and unsettling, George
Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic
innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule. 'Rich and riotous' The
Times'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune
In the Castle of My Skin - George Lamming
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