Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Harold Sonny Ladoo

Prefacio de

Kevin Jared Hosein

Editorial

Coach House Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

112

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.8x12.2x1 cm

Peso

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781552454787

Categorías

Aventura de ficción
Ficción humorística

Yesterdays (en Inglés)

Harold Sonny Ladoo (Autor) · Kevin Jared Hosein (Prefacio de) · Coach House Books · Tapa Blanda

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A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head.Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man's attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to convert the heathen Christians of Canada. Yet this conceit quickly derails into a ribald, outrageous portrait of West Indian village life, and a prescient, proto-parody of what would become the archetypal 'immigrant story.' Sacred cows both figurative and literal are skewered in a series of hilarious and increasingly bawdy encounters between villagers who gossip, cheat, and steal, but also form a balanced, if chaotic, collectivity.Yesterdays is one of the great lost English-language novels of the previous century--perhaps ahead of its own time upon its initial release, but sure to appeal to 21st-century audiences who will appreciate its startling prescience, linguistic inventiveness, as well as its bold singularity amid a canon glutted with paint-by-numbers respectability."Yesterdays upends conventional narratives that find sexual liberation in the postindustrial city. Ladoo's agrarian villagers inhabit the fullness of their complex humanities in audaciously funny and often uncomfortable ways, and are radically at ease with their fluid sexual appetites. An under-appreciated gem, his novel is as much a testament to Ladoo's skillful observation and rendering of the world that surrounded him as it is to the value of being tellers of our own stories." - Andil Gosine, author of Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean"Yesterdays is the novel, underappreciated on its initial release and since forgotten, that should have charted a deviant, audacious path through the staid self-seriousness of Canadian literature. Let's hope there's still time." - Pasha Malla, author of All You Can Kill