num_pages: 237
description: From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a "many-tongued chorus" of common memory—and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.
language: English
title: Part III Of Crossing The River
titlecomplete: Part III Of Crossing The River (AN EXCERPT)
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Race, Novels, Post Colonial, Africa, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 989
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf