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2025 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi La passione di Jamaica Kincaid per piante e fiori risale a quando, ancora bambina, mentre imparava a leggere sulla Bibbia, ha esplorato il suo primo giardino, l'Eden. Scaturita prima che avesse familiarità «con quell'entità chiamata coscienza» e poi tenacemente coltivata, tale passione l'ha portata anni dopo a intraprendere in compagnia di tre botanici un viaggio sulle colline pedemontane dell'Himalaya, alla ricerca di semi da piantare nel suo giardino del Vermont. Tre settimane di faticoso cammino, fra paesaggi sempre mutevoli, di una bellezza vertiginosa e allarmante - inquietanti strapiombi a pochi centimetri dai piedi, improvvisi sbalzi di temperatura, le onnipresenti sanguisughe, guerriglieri maoisti mai indulgenti con chi proviene dagli Stati Uniti -, che hanno dato vita a questo piccolo libro, solo in apparenza diverso dai precedenti, dove la prosa di Kincaid conserva la stessa «spontaneità sontuosa» che le aveva attribuito una volta, con calzante precisione, Susan Sontag. Una spontaneità che le permette di gettare, anche se solo di sfuggita, uno sguardo radente sugli effetti perduranti e duraturi del colonialismo, ma anche sul senso più nascosto dell'esistenza, in un ambiente che - come quello himalayano - annienta le nostre nozioni di spazio e di tempo. € 14,00
Scontato: € 13,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi € 12,00
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2023 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi «E chi era veramente quella bambina? (Allora non lo chiesi perché allora non sapevo chiedere ma lo chiedo adesso). E chi aveva fatto il suo vestito?». € 5,00
Scontato: € 4,75
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2020 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi Jamaica Kincaid appartiene alla schiera degli autori che, nati alla "periferia dell'impero" (nel suo caso ad Antigua nei Caraibi), hanno immesso nuova linfa nella letteratura di lingua inglese. Questa è una storia di solitudine e risentimento, di insofferenza per la "stanza nera del mondo", che assume il profilo di paesaggi lussureggianti. Le vicende di Xuela, figlia di una madre caraibica e di un padre per metà scozzese e per metà africano, abbandonata insieme a un mucchio di panni sporchi mentre la madre moriva di parto, aprono un variegato itinerario nell'infelicità dove le durezze del mondo si scontrano con un carattere torvo e visionario. E a ogni passo di questo itinerario la vita di Xuela si intreccia con quella della madre non conosciuta. € 12,00
Scontato: € 11,40
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1919 |
![]() ![]() Author: Jamaica Kincaid Publisher: Akashic Books € 16,80
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1918 |
![]() ![]() Author: Jamaica Kincaid Publisher: Daunt Books € 14,50
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1917 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica, Miles Robin (NRT) Publisher: Baker & Taylor € 47,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica, Miles Robin (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc € 26,10
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2017 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi «Il genio ha molte sorprese, e una di queste è la geografia» ha scritto Derek Walcott a proposito di Jamaica Kincaid. Ed è proprio la geografia di Antigua, così accecante e celeste, a permeare la prosa incantatoria del suo primo romanzo: gli alisei, i riti della pesca e dell'obeah si confondono in un'unica musica palpitante, mentre l'albero del pane e le sgargianti poinciane stonano con la chiesa anglicana, con la divisa scolastica, con i quaderni che hanno in copertina la regina Vittoria. E intanto Annie John cresce in una felice solitudine, al centro dell'universo della sua bellissima, giovane madre. Ma poi, la catastrofe: Annie «diventa signorina», e la madre, che come una divinità può dare e togliere tutto, incomprensibilmente si trasforma in un'algida nemica. «Io vivevo in un paradiso così» dice Annie dei suoi anni di bambina; ma ogni paradiso ha il suo «orribile serpente», e sarà un tormentoso duello quotidiano a scandire il suo furente ingresso nell'adolescenza. € 14,00
Scontato: € 13,30
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1916 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica, Miles Robin (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc € 18,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica, Miles Robin (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc € 21,30
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1914 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters—a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England—as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, “the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then.” Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid’s attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. € 11,60
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2014 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi Nel romanzo che segna il suo ritorno dopo dieci anni di silenzio, Jamaica Kincaid, ormai lontana dai Caraibi, ci racconta la storia di un matrimonio un matrimonio finito. Il suo, forse: l'epoca, la casa (nel Vermont), il marito (musicista), i figli (un maschio e una femmina), la professione della signora Sweet (scrittrice) corrispondono in tutto e per tutto alla vita reale dell'autrice. Come sempre, tuttavia, la sua corrosiva, inconfondibile prosa è più estranea all'autobiografismo di quanto non appaia a prima vista: la stessa Kincaid ha del resto dichiarato che "il protagonista di questo romanzo è il Tempo". E si potrebbe aggiungere che un'aura mitologica e visionaria irradia da una narrazione che è come un'invettiva infuocata - e a tratti esilarante -, dove non a caso i figli della signora Sweet si chiamano Eracle e Persefone. Ma poiché la casa è "un carcere con la secondina dentro", la moglie "quella brutta strega arrivata con la nave delle banane" e il marito "così piccolo che a volte la gente... lo scambiava per un roditore", ci renderemo conto, pagina dopo pagina, che la signora Sweet, proprio come la Xuela dell'"Autobiografia di mia madre", è soprattutto un'abitante di quell'inferno interiore che Jamaica Kincaid sa raffigurare in maniera inimitabile. € 16,50
Scontato: € 15,68
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Schwarz-Bart Simone, Kincaid Jamaica (INT), Bray Barbara (TRN) Publisher: New York Review of Books In this intoxicating tale of love and madness, mothers and daughters, folkloric wisdom and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe, aged yet unbowed Telumee tells her life story, along with that of the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from, even in their physical absence. Having obtained, with dizzying speed, love and happiness and the trust of others, Telumee must find the resources, personal and collective, both to rejoice without reserve and then, in less fortunate seasons, to survive suffering that would crush weaker vessels. In the words of “Queen Without a Name,” the stoic and tender grandmother who raises her, “Behind one pain there is another. Sorrow is a wave without end. But the horse mustn’t ride you, you must ride it.” A masterpiece of Caribbean literature, The Bridge of Beyond represents at once a gorgeously thick description of the flora and climate, crafts and customs of the island, and the triumph of a spirit so generous and hopeful that no earthly adversity could outlast it. Simone Schwarz-Bart’s sinuous and lyrical prose, interwoven with proverbs and other local sayings, appears here in an uncommonly good translation by Barbara Bray. € 18,35
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman’s courageous coming-of-age Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid’s novel is the deeply charged story of a woman’s life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela’s childhood in a home where she can hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack LaBatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela’s is an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is “the black room of the world” that is Xuela’s barrenness and motherlessness. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman’s inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical poetry. € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Center Point Pub In See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid’s first novel in ten years, a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters, a mother and father and their two children living in a small village in New England, as they move between the present, the past, and the future. € 33,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux A beautifully wrought new novel about marriage and family from the acclaimed author of Mr. Potter € 21,40
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2011 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica; Cavagnoli F. (cur.) Publisher: Adelphi "Questo libro canterà sul vostro scaffale. È troppo soffocato d'amore per suscitare invidia, troppo umile per gli encomi, e tuttavia è così impressionante da non poter eludere lo stupore". Così Derek Walcott salutò "In fondo al fiume" - primo libro di Jamaica Kincaid -, che radunava i racconti poetici già accolti dai lettori del "New Yorker" come rari gioielli letterari: a scorci di una natura lussureggiante che suscita inquietudini profonde si alternano i ricordi di un'infanzia caribica fatta di scoperte minute e preziose, di dolenti rapporti familiari dominati da una madre che tutto dona e poi tutto nega - "Mi cinse con le braccia, stringendomi sempre più la testa al petto, finché non soffocai" -, e che verrà magistralmente celebrata nella torrida e furente Autobiografia di mia madre. Nulla è come sembra, in questo libro breve ma inesauribile: e quando i paesaggi si accendono di colori violenti è per meglio accogliere nell'ombra i sentimenti più riposti di una creatura ancora "primitiva e senza ali". La voce della giovane Kincaid ("il mio nome mi riempie la bocca") è schietta, capricciosa e ingannevolmente semplice, e vi risuonano i ritmi laceranti di quella prosa visionaria e incantatoria che sarà soltanto sua. € 10,00
Scontato: € 9,50
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2008 |
![]() ![]() Author: Dumas Alexandre, Kover Tina A. (TRN), Sollors Werner (EDT), Kincaid Jamaica (FRW) Publisher: Modern Library Long out of print in America, Alexandre Dumas's most daring narrative is now available in this major new translation by Tina A. Kover. Filled with intrigue, romance, and deadly vengeance, Georges is the story of a wealthy mulatto boy who is driven from his island home by racist landowners. Returning to Mauritius as an accomplished young man, Georges pits his strength against a powerful plantation owner, leading a dramatic slave uprising and claiming the heart of a beautiful white woman. Georges stands apart as the only book by Dumas that explores the potent subject of race. Praise for Georges: “A rousing and vivid adventure . . . packed with action and atmosphere.” –The Columbus Dispatch “A remarkable discovery . . . We are indebted to Werner Sollors and Jamaica Kincaid for providing us with a critical lens for the journey Dumas has created out of his own generous and expansive imagination.” –Rudolph P. Byrd, Emory University “As compelling and relevant today as it was back in the 1840s, when it was first published.” –Adrienne Kennedy, author of Funnyhouse of a Negro € 16,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi Viene da un'isola delle Antille che per i turisti è il fondale di una vacanza da sogno ma che per lei - che già da bambina rifiutava di intonare "Rule, Britannia!" - è una colonia ostaggio del sole e della siccità, una prigione insopportabile. Per spezzare le catene, e insieme per sbarazzarsi dell'amore terribile della madre e della crudele indifferenza del padre, Lucy sbarca in un'altra isola, Manhattan. Ma l'illuminata benevolenza della famiglia che l'ha accolta come ragazza au pair non fa che acuire nostalgia e furore: alla trionfante generosità di chi ha solo certezze, Lucy non può che opporre un'astiosa impudenza. Non le sfugge, del resto, che l'atmosfera dì armoniosa perfezione che avvolge Mariah, Lewis e le loro quattro bambine bionde è uno show, e occulta crepe minacciose - i segni della rovina imminente. Anche nell'opulenta New York, proprio come ad Antigua, attorno a una tavola apparecchiata può regnare la desolazione. Nulla, nell'arco di un breve anno, rimarrà intatto: per il cieco progressismo di chi la ospita e dovrà confrontarsi con lo specchio deformante dei margini del mondo; e per Lucy: insofferente ai dominati come ai dominatori, senza più punti di riferimento, proverà, al pari di Gauguin - il pittore che ha scoperto in un museo e subito amato -, a inventarsi facendo affidamento solo sull'intuizione, e a riscattare l'oltraggio della sua origine. € 12,00
Scontato: € 11,40
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2007 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Natl Geographic Society In this delightful hybrid of a book?part memoir and part travel journal?the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden. Alighting from a plane in the dramatic Annapurna Valley, the ominous signs of Nepal's Maoist guerrillas are all around?an alarming presence that accompanies the travelers throughout their trek. Undaunted, the group sets off into the mountains with Sherpas and bearers, entering an exotic world of spectacular landscapes, vertiginous slopes, isolated villages, herds of yaks, and giant rhododendron, thirty feet tall. The landscape and flora and so much else of what Kincaid finds in the Himalaya?including fruit bats, colorful Buddhist prayer flags, and the hated leeches that plague much of the trip?are new to her, and she approaches it all with an acute sense of wonder and a deft eye for detail. In beautiful, introspective prose, Kincaid intertwines the harrowing Maoist encounters with exciting botanical discoveries, fascinating daily details, and lyrical musings on gardens, nature, home, and family. € 9,90
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2006 |
![]() ![]() Author: Frazier Ian, Kincaid Jamaica (FRW) Publisher: St Martins Pr Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like his literary forebears Joseph Mitchell and A. J. Liebling, Frazier makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again. € 15,70
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2005 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi Mr. Potter è un tassista analfabeta che vive in una delle isole più belle del mondo, un "posto piccolo" incastonato nell'azzurro del mar dei Caraibi. Nasce nel 1922 e la sua vita scorre parallela a quella della sua terra, Antigua, una terra da cui non uscirà tutta la vita. Figlio di un modesto pescatore e di una donna che, non riuscendo a sopportare la miseria di un'esistenza soffocante, decide di andare incontro alle onde. Insomma, un uomo qualsiasi. Ma anche il padre di Giamaica Kincaid. Un padre che non concede amore, un padre mai veramente conosciuto, ma solo spiato da lontano. € 14,00
Scontato: € 13,30
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2003 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: “Kincaid's most poetic and affecting novel to date” (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World) Jamaica Kincaid's first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass through the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air. Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide, Mr. Potter struggles to live at ease amid his surroundings: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters—one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life. € 13,40
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2002 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperback Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis's and Mariah's lives, she is also unravelling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time. € 12,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux From "The Talk of the Town," Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite insider's magazine, and (though unsigned) all her own--wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. New York is a town that, in return, fast adopts those who embrace it, and in these early pieces Kincaid discovers many of its hilarious secrets and urban mannerisms. She meets Miss Jamaica, visiting from Kingston, and escorts the reader to the West Indian-American Day parade in Brooklyn; she sees Ed Koch don his "Cheshire-cat smile" and watches Tammy Wynette autograph a copy of Lattimore's Odyssey; she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudite. The book also records Kincaid's development as a young writer--the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors. Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont. Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town,' composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite insider's magazine, and (though unsigned) all her own—wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. New York is a town that, in return, fast adopts those who embrace it, and in these early pieces Kincaid discovers many of its hilarious secrets and urban mannerisms. She meets Miss Jamaica, visiting from Kingston, and escorts the reader to the West Indian-American Day parade in Brooklyn; she sees Ed Koch don his "Cheshire-cat smile" and watches Tammy Wynette autograph a copy of Lattimore's Odyssey; she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudite. The book also records Kincaid's development as a young writer—the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors. "I recently reread all eighty-five of Kincaid's 'Talk' stories, and I was surprised by what I found in them—surprised, delighted, and, most of all, embarrassed for my younger self . . . It's taken me a few years to appreciate that there are times when it's enough for writing, like sleep and sex, to exist just for the pleasure it gives."—Craig Seligman, The Threepenny Review "From the collection's first piece . . . the reader is snared by the simplicity, directness and unvarnished truthfulness of formidable talent already realized."—Margaret Fichtner, Miami Herald "Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing , the fruit of a remarkable understanding between a seasoned editor and a nervy new writer, is rare and precious, and best appreciated here, where each provocative essay plays against the others, no longer anonymous."—Chicago Tribune € 21,30
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2001 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica (EDT), Fox Jill (ILT) Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them. € 15,70
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2000 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision. Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected. € 12,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies. A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies. € 14,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Kincaid Jamaica Publisher: Adelphi Per molti Antigua è soltanto un'isola di spiagge bianchissime accarezzate dagli alisei, una per ciascun giorno dell'anno. Jamaica Kincaid, che ci è nata, ce ne mostra una faccia diversa. E d'improvviso, è come se nello smalto verde-azzurro dei Caraibi si scoprisse una ferita in supporazione, prodotta da politici predatori, interessati solo a perpetuare lo sfruttamento di chi, tanto tempo fa, colonizzò l'isola. Nulla riesce a contenere gli insulti che l'autrice, pur con grande sofferenza, riversa su tutti, turisti compresi. Che il turista sprovveduto sfogli pure le pagine patinate delle solite guide: chi metterà in valigia questo scarno libretto, scorgerà un'altra Antigua. € 12,00
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