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Crossing the River

Caryl Phillips

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Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Caryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9781409016946
Genre
Fiction
Topics
African diasporaFamily separation and legacySlavery and its aftermath

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