Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
My Brahmin Days
and other stories
- Publisher
- Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2000
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920661857
- Publish Date
- Jan 2000
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
These closely observed stories, with their gritty poetic descriptions and finely ironic twists, confront Dabydeen's Asian and Caribbean-South American identity with his experience of life in Canada, where he has lived for over three decades.
About the author
Cyril Dabydeen has published more than a dozen books of prose and poetry in the United Kingdom and Canada, including the novel Dark Swirl and the story collections My Brahmin Days, Black Jesus and Other Stories, and Jogging in Havana. The City of Ottawa appointed him Poet Laureate in the mid-1980s and granted him the first Award of Excellence for Writing and Publishing. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
"It is the epiphany, the moment of illumination, which comes out of an ordinary experience." --World Literature Today
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