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Pleasantview - Celeste Mohammed

TT$160.00

Currently Out of Stock Anthology Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the Caribbean. However, if you want to learn how the locals truly live and experience the dark and often harrowing truths that lurk behind the idyllic imagery of Caribbean culture, then come visit the town of Pleasantview. Hardcover Jacaranda Books

Winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

Winner of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction.

Shortlisted for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize 2022.

Written in a remarkable combination of Standard English and Trinidad Creole, Pleasantview showcases the entrenched political, racial, and class dichotomies of life in Trinidad: the generosity (yet cruelty) of the average Trini; the sense of optimism (and yet, despair) which permeates everyday interaction; and the musicality of Caribbean creole (Kriol) expression that masks an ingrained and frequently violent patriarchy.

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