num_pages: 480
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
titlecomplete: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
genres: 20th Century, American, Historical Fiction, Cultural, Post Colonial, Novels, Literature, Race, African American, Fiction
ratings_count: 290
publisher: Vintage