num_pages: 164
description: A collection of short stories which are all set in the Caribbean and London. Pauline Melville is the winner of "The Guardian" Fiction Prize and winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award. This book was also awarded the 1991 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book.
language: English
title: Shape-shifter
titlecomplete: Shape-shifter
genres: Fiction, Post Colonial, Magical Realism, British Literature, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 104
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Guardian Fiction Award, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book Overall
publisher: Pan Books