The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction

Wishlist

Saved in this browser only - it isn't synced to your other devices.

Back to the full ranking
Soucouyant cover

Soucouyant

David Chariandy

0

awards won

1

score

#8013 of 8,085 books · #3115 in Fiction

Longlisted for the Giller Prize (2007).

A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. The son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. In his desire to atone for his past and live anew, he is compelled to imagine his mother's life before it all slips into darkness - her arrival in Canada during the early sixties, her childhood in Trinidad during World War II, and her lurking secret that each have tried to forget.

Buy this book at AmazonAd
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN-13
9781551523767
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Memory and dementiaCaribbean immigrant identityFamily and reconciliation

Awards

Other awarded books from David Chariandy

If you liked Soucouyant, you could also like these

Similar Topics