Caribbean Books


Brother, I'm DyingBrother, I'm Dying
Best Price: $13.49
Edwidge Danticat has made a name for herself chronicling the lives of Haitian immigrants in the...
The Pirate's Daughter: A NovelThe Pirate's Daughter: A Novel
Best Price: $8.42
I loved this book. Being Jamaican, I could appreciate all aspects of this engaging family saga. ...
AbengAbeng
Best Price: $1.99
Abeng is an incredible work of post-colonial literature, that via the life of protagonist Clare...
The Kingdom of This World: A NovelThe Kingdom of This World: A Novel
Best Price: $7.34
Carpentier, the revered Cuban novelist who died in 1980, published The Kingdom of This World in...
Adios HemingwayAdios Hemingway
Best Price: $6.38
I haven 't read the book yet but the quality of the book and the delivery of it was superb.


A Taste Of SinA Taste Of Sin
Best Price: $6.71
Fionna Zedde not only tantalizes her reader with an abundance of steamy scenes, but she also...
Selected PoemsSelected Poems
Best Price: $14.31
I love Derek Walcott, and this is the best collection of his poetry I've ever seen. Amazing editing.
Selected PoemsSelected Poems
Best Price: $8.51
Drawing from every stage of the Nobel laureate's career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings...
UnburnableUnburnable
Best Price: $5.00
I read this book on my trip back home and I truly felt as if I was back in time. During the...
Minty AlleyMinty Alley
Best Price: $19.00
Minty alley is one of the first books C.L.R. James wrote, before he found his niche as a...


Me Dying Trial (Bluestreak)Me Dying Trial (Bluestreak)
Best Price: $4.99
Anyone with a love of West Indian literature should real ME DYING TRIAL. Likewise, those with an...
Sirena Selena: A NovelSirena Selena: A Novel
Best Price: $7.95
It has been a long time since I have read a beautiful novel set in the Caribbean. I had to get...
Embracing The Moonlight (Kimani Romance)Embracing The Moonlight (Kimani Romance)
Best Price: $1.50
This is the third book I've read by Mr. Jordan. And he is indeed a fine romance writer. I enjoy...
The IntendedThe Intended
Best Price: $18.81
Exploring rites of passage in London's Asian community, this semiautobiographical novel follows...
Buxton SpiceBuxton Spice
Best Price: $7.56
This sultry story of sexual-awakening is a must-read for everyone. Mothers, but this book for...

The Orchid HouseThe Orchid House
Best Price: $4.43
The book is in really good condition and was received promptly. I'd buy again from this source.
The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago Poets)The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago Poets)
Best Price: $8.48
Grace Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye—images of joy, and...
The Art of MurderThe Art of Murder
Best Price: $7.94
I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining, provocative, intelligent book. One of my litmus...
The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (Caribbean Writers Series)The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (Caribbean Writers Series)
Best Price: $11.91
West Indians, as Ian McDonald comments, "write poetry as well as they play cricket"...
Lutchmee and Dilloo: A Study of West Indian Life (Caribbean Classics (MacMillan Caribbean))Lutchmee and Dilloo: A Study of West Indian Life (Caribbean Classics (MacMillan Caribbean))
Best Price: $7.82
First published in 1877, this is the earliest novel of Indo-Guyanese life. It is a lively and...

Collected Poems 1948-1984Collected Poems 1948-1984
...i firmly believe he has reperesented the caribbean in a way no- one has ever done before....
Brighter Sun (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)Brighter Sun (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
Best Price: $49.75
I was introduced to this book through my high school literature class and thoroughly enjoyed....
Another LifeAnother LifeSlow Motion: Capture The Sunrise\Dark and Dashing (Arabesque)Slow Motion: Capture The Sunrise\Dark and Dashing (Arabesque)
Best Price: $127.75
Capture the sunrise; wow strong emotions in this book - Wayne Jordan writes just as well as any...
The Hills Were Joyful Together (Caribbean Writers Series)The Hills Were Joyful Together (Caribbean Writers Series)
I really enjoyed this book. Although it's very sad, it is a great insight into life in the...

A Small Gathering of BonesA Small Gathering of Bones
Best Price: $7.65
"A Small Gathering of Bones" offers one of the most genuine renderings of Gay life in...
AncestorsAncestors
Best Price: $13.70
Ancestors is a "must' read for scholars and critics of Caribbean literature and poetry. ...
Derek Walcott (Twayne's World Authors Series)Derek Walcott (Twayne's World Authors Series)
Best Price: $24.32
Hamner's updated study of Derek Walcott is a great introduction to Walcott's ever expanding...
Voiceprint : An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean (Longman Caribbean Writers Series)Voiceprint : An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean (Longman Caribbean Writers Series)Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean (Caribbean Studies)Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean (Caribbean Studies)
Best Price: $44.95
Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean traces the contradictory cultural...

Moving North (Caribbean Connections) (Caribbean Connections)Moving North (Caribbean Connections) (Caribbean Connections)
Best Price: $8.69
An incredible, informative, collection of essays, oral histories, poetry, fiction, analysis,...
Ten Is the Age of Darkness: The Black BildungsromanTen Is the Age of Darkness: The Black Bildungsroman
Best Price: $1.89
Until Judgement Comes: Stories About Jamaican MenUntil Judgement Comes: Stories About Jamaican Men
Best Price: $16.80
Sensitive and imaginative, this collection of short stories explores the Jamaican male psyche...
Dancing in the DarkDancing in the Dark
Best Price: $0.29
I was looking for Mary Higgins Clark and came up upon this Mary Jane Clark book and thought I'ld...
DisappearanceDisappearance
Best Price: $17.89
This novel that echoes the styles of Joseph Conrad and V. S. Naipaul follows a young Guyanese...

Tide Running (Bluestreak)Tide Running (Bluestreak)
Best Price: $2.61
With the realism of a documentary film maker, Oonya Kempadoo chronicles the lives of two ...
West Indian Literature: An Index to Criticism, 1930-1975 (Reference publication in Latin American studies)West Indian Literature: An Index to Criticism, 1930-1975 (Reference publication in Latin American studies)
Best Price: $11.87
Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean LiteratureNationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature
Best Price: $69.68
This book tells the story of how intellectuals in the English-speaking Caribbean first created a...
The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (New World Studies)The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (New World Studies)
Best Price: $14.24
No Land, No Mother: Essays on the Work of David DabydeenNo Land, No Mother: Essays on the Work of David Dabydeen
Best Price: $24.87
The rich dialogue on David Dabydeen's increasingly diverse and critically acclaimed body of work...

Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series).)Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series).)
Best Price: $104.88
This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book...
Anancy in the Great House: Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)Anancy in the Great House: Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Best Price: $63.87
If you like adventure,suspense and heart warming stories this book is just right for you.It is a...
Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Best Price: $101.95
The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare's The Tempest has evolved as a metaphor for the...
Jumbie Bird (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)Jumbie Bird (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
Best Price: $14.20
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short StoriesThe Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CARIBBEAN SHORT STORIES seems to have a few missions in mind, but mainly, it...

The Man Who Loved Attending Funerals and Other Stories (Caribbean Writers Series)The Man Who Loved Attending Funerals and Other Stories (Caribbean Writers Series)
Best Price: $3.49
Caribbean Women Writers (Women Writers of English and Their Works)Caribbean Women Writers (Women Writers of English and Their Works)
Best Price: $27.50
The Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of HistoryThe Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History
Best Price: $4.91
The Daughter's Return offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and...
A Hot Country: (Love and Death In a Hot Country) (Twentieth Century Classics)A Hot Country: (Love and Death In a Hot Country) (Twentieth Century Classics)
Best Price: $5.99
'A Hot Country' almost reads like a parody of a 'post-colonial' novel, just waiting to be...
Grace: A NovelGrace: A Novel
Best Price: $4.50
I have read most of Ms. Nunez books and found them wonderful, dignified stories. This one was a...

Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)
Best Price: $29.85
Migrant Revolution offers an overview of twentieth-century Haitian literature, placing its rich...
Black + Blues (New Directions Paperbook, 815)Black + Blues (New Directions Paperbook, 815)
Best Price: $5.93
poetry, revised edtn of 1979 Casa de las Americas
Counting HouseCounting House
Best Price: $18.76
Issues of caste, slavery, racism, and the immigrant experience in the early 19th century are...
Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of African-Caribbean Dub Poetry (Cross/Cultures) (Cross/Cultures)Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of African-Caribbean Dub Poetry (Cross/Cultures) (Cross/Cultures)
Best Price: $53.57
This is the first book-length study of dub poetry, the musical talkover that has been an...
Crying MountainCrying Mountain
Best Price: $17.95
Lily Dauphin's "Crying Mountain" is unlike any book I've read. You become so close to...

The Land of Look Behind: Prose and PoetryThe Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry    
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