Light falling on bamboo
By: Lawrence Scott
Publisher: Tindal Street Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Birmingham [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781906994396; 9781906994952
Subjects: Fiction; Artists; Biography; Historischer Roman; History
Description: Trinidad, 1865. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home to be at his beloved mother's deathbed. Life on the island seems very different after the freedoms of post-Revolutionary Paris, where his paintings have hung in the Louvre. Despite the Emancipation Act, his childhood home is in the grip of colonial power, its people riven by the legacy of slavery. Michel Jean finds himself caught between the powerful and the dispossessed. As an artist, he enjoys the governor's patronage, painting for him the island's vistas and its women; as a Trinidadian he shares easy wisdom and nips of rum with the local boat-builders.