num_pages: 160
description: When Bertram Francis returns to his native St. Kitts after a twenty-year sojourn in England, the mangy, flamboyant island that greets him is astonishingly unchanged. Yet time and the bitternes of his island-bound family and friends have made him a stranger among familiar faces and landsmarks. A State of Independence recounts the first three days of Bertram's inauspicious homecoming, which coincides with the island's liberation from British rule.
language: English
title: A State of Independence
titlecomplete: A State of Independence
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 108
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux