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Crown jewel: a novel / Ralph de Boissi ere.

By: Publication details: London: Allison & Busby, 1981.Description: 360 pages; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0850312922
  • 9780850312928
  • 0850312930
  • 9780850312935
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 19
  • F Boi
LOC classification:
  • PR9272.9.B55 C7 1981 PR9272.9.D4
Other classification:
  • HQ 7999
Contents:
Trinidad, traditionally the Caribbean jewel in the crown of the British Empire, is an island of astonishing natural beauty. Yet its history is scarred by the echoes of slavery, the colonial past, and the vicious tensions of racial hatred. These contrasts lie at the heart of Crown Jewel. Taking as its theme the rising tide of radical unionism on the island in the 1930s and containing a profusion of vivid characters-white exploiters and black exploited, Creoles, Chinese and Latin Americans-Crown Jewel is a political novel of great power and importance. But it is not only a political novel; it also, in Ralph de Boissiere's supremely talented hands, a moving and beautiful love story.
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  • 020497 Charm
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First published: 1952

Trinidad, traditionally the Caribbean jewel in the crown of the British Empire, is an island of astonishing natural beauty. Yet its history is scarred by the echoes of slavery, the colonial past, and the vicious tensions of racial hatred. These contrasts lie at the heart of Crown Jewel. Taking as its theme the rising tide of radical unionism on the island in the 1930s and containing a profusion of vivid characters-white exploiters and black exploited, Creoles, Chinese and Latin Americans-Crown Jewel is a political novel of great power and importance. But it is not only a political novel; it also, in Ralph de Boissiere's supremely talented hands, a moving and beautiful love story.

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