Crossing the River
#222 of 8,085 books · #49 in Historical Fiction
Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1993). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.
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.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN-13
- 9781409016946
- Genre
- Topics
- African diasporaFamily separation and legacySlavery and its aftermath
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial PrizeWonMajor(1993)
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1993)
Other awarded books from Caryl Phillips
- A Distant Shore (2005)0 wins · 6 score
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