Jamaica Kincaid

The author of such books as At the Bottom of the River and My Brother returns to Antigua, the ten-by-twelve mile Caribbean island where she grew up, to explore the effects of colonialism. Reprint.

A Small Place

Echappée à sa famille, à son île et à son passé, Lucy, une jeune Antillaise de dix-neuf ans, devient fille au pair dans un foyer bourgeois de New York. Avec une froideur quasi clinique, elle observe et dissèque son nouvel entourage tout en se confrontant à ses propres fantômes : un père qui ne l'a pas aimée et une mère pour laquelle elle éprouve autant de haine que d'amour. Et si elle s'accoutume peu à peu à ce climat jusqu'alors inconnu, son sentiment d'extranéité demeure. Absente au monde, tout entière obsédée par son trouble intérieur, hantée par ses origines, son sexe et sa couleur, elle ne voit d'issue qu'en l'écriture : une tentative de se parler à soi-même, comme l'aveu d'une profonde solitude. Comme dans Mon frère ou dans Autobiographie de ma mère, la singulière voix de Jamaica Kincaid continue de témoigner d'un sentiment de différence inguérissable.

Lucy

The theme of lost childhood remains constant in this short fictional narrative of rebellious Annie John's coming of age on the small island of Antigua

A Novel

Annie John

After her mother dies at birth, Xuela is left by her father with his laundress for the next seven years in a home where she feels no love or affection, so when she moves in with her father's friends, the LaBattes, she finds pleasure however she can. Reprint.

The Autobiography of My Mother

Girl

A collection of short works by the author of Lucy follow the ties between mother and child, the beauty and destructiveness of nature, the gulf between man and woman, and the significance of familiar objects. Reprint.

At the Bottom of the River

In a haunting novel about marriage and family, a mother and father and their two children, living in a small village in New England, move, in their own minds, between the present, the past and the future.

See Now Then

The author offers a literary celebration of the art of gardening, discussing her favorite plants, her horticultural sources of inspiration, and famous gardens around the world.

My Garden (Book)

The author presents a candid portrait of her late brother, an athlete, Rastafarian, and drug addict who died of AIDS at the age of thirty-three

My Brother

El nacimiento de Xuela coincidió con la muerte de su madre. Su padre, carcelero de fondo y de forma, le abandona siendo un bebé entregándola a una lavandera. Xuela crece y decide no tener hijos; decide incluso no formar parte de ninguna de las experiencias vitales asumidas por el resto de las personas.

Autobiografía de mi madre

After laborious training and preparation, Kincaid and a group of botanists trek the Himalayas. Along the way she moves easily between closely observed, down-to-earth descriptions of the trek and larger musings about gardens, nature, seed gathering, home, and family.

A Walk in the Himalaya

Among Flowers

A delightful compendium of writing on plants. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Christopher Lloyd, on poppies; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose; and Henri Cole, who offers poems on the bearded iris and on peonies. There is also an explanation of the sexiness of castor beans from Michael Pollan and an essay from Maxine Kumin on how, as Henry David Thoreau put it, one "[makes] the earth say beans instead of grass." Most of the essays are new in print, but Colette, Katharine S. White, D. H. Lawrence, and several other old favorites make appearances. Jamaica Kincaid, the much-admired writer and a passionate gardener herself, rounds up this diverse crew. A wonderful gift for green thumbs, My Favorite Plant is a happy collection of fresh takes on old friends. Other contributors include: Hilton Als Mary Keen Ken Druse Duane Michals Michael Fox David Raffeld Ian Frazier Graham Stuart Thomas Daniel Hinkley Wayne Winterrowd

Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love

My Favorite Plant

Annemin Otobiyografisi

Autobiografia mojej matki

Mr.Potter

A collection of stories which plunges the reader into an intensely physical world, partly remembered, partly divined: a childhood in the Caribbean, defined by fierce emotion and poverty co-existing uneasily with teatime, churchgoing and British schoolbooks about frostbitten chimney-sweeps.

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.

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