Cambridge

By: Caryl Phillips

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Paperback | 1 May 2008 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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19.6 x 13.0 x 1.3

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Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and Christianised by his first master in England and now struggling to maintain his dignity.

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A striking novel that pushes you dizzily into another time and place... Reading it is like being in the middle of a vibrant dream * Sunday Times *
Phillips points up the hypocrisy and humiliation of a society at breaking point; revealing it with subtlety, humour and humanity * Sunday Telegraph *
Caryl Phillips has proved himself to be among the best and most productive writers of his generation...with Cambridge he takes a firm step towards joining the company of the literary giants of our time * New York Times *
This powerful, seductively readable book, set in a 19th century slave plantation, finally puts the sickening realities of the slave trade firmly on the map * Guardian *
Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso * The Times *

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