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The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Carribean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants — black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. The advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, and the tense ambivalent relationships that evolve — between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots — keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 480
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780394726335
  • Genres
  • fiction, literature, novels, american, race, cultural
  • Release date
  • 1984