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Returning to his island home of San Cristobal after a period away, local politician Isaac Shepard finds his public life shadowed by rumor and misinterpretation—sometimes even branded as madness. As the community’s social and economic pressures tighten, Shepard’s struggle to be understood becomes inseparable from the novel’s deeper questions about how stories are made, read, and believed. George Lamming’s distinctive, idea-driven style turns the courtroom and the community’s talk into a stage for competing narratives, where language itself—what can be said, what must be invented, and what is lost in translation—carries the weight of truth. Blending political insight with lyrical intensity, the novel explores coming-of-age in a broader sense: the painful education of a society confronting change, memory, and the fragile boundary between innocence and experience.
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Schocken
Published Jan 1, 1958
424 pages
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First Published
1958
Language
eng
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