Kerry Young

a novel

Gloria

A richly imagined, wholly engrossing and utterly captivating novel that tells the remarkable history of twentieth century Jamaica

Finalista de los Costa Book Awards 2011 en la categoría de primera novela. Una cautivadora novela que recorre la historia de Jamaica desde 1930 hasta 1980 a través de la óptica multicultural de un chino asentado en Kingston. Kingston, 1938. El joven Pao llega a Jamaica huyendo de la guerra civil china y dispuesto a convertirse en el «padrino» de Chinatown, tomando el relevo de su propio tío. Pero le falta madera de Don Corleone. Sus chanchullos son de poca monta, y la protección que ofrece, innecesaria. Él es un tipo sensible que cuando no lo reclaman sus negocios se refugia en la sabiduría milenaria china. Con los años, la brecha entre sus intereses y su trabajo se hace más profunda. Llegan los disturbios de 1960, Jamaica camina hacia la independencia, y el padrino de Chinatown va a la deriva... Pao es un absorbente retrato de Jamaica durante el convulso siglo XX, que cautiva con la entrañable voz de su protagonista. El resultado, finalista de los Costa Books Awards a la primera novela, confirma a Young, según The Guardian, como «una escritora de talento, que deslumbra con su pulso narrativo y la calidad de su prosa». Reseñas: «El enérgico debut de Kerry Young es una absorbente saga sobre el hampa ambientado en el violento marco de Jamaica.» The Independent «Kerry Young se inspira en su propio padre para presentarnos la apasionante visión de un submundo que los turistas no logran ver.» Kirkus Reviews «Pao confirma a Young como una escritora de talento. Su novela deslumbra por su pulso narrativo y la calidad de su prosa.» The Guardian «Magnífica. Una novela con gracia, autenticidad y fino sentido del humor. Young permite que la historia política de Jamaica aflore a través de la vida de un antihéroe inolvidable.» Daily Mail «Una deslumbrante historia multicultural sobre qué significa crecer en Jamaica, antes y después de su independencia.» Dictamen del jurado de los Costa Books Awards.

Pao. Un chino en Kingston

Fay Wong is caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant who conjured a fortune from nothing; her African heritage mother grew up on a plantation and now reigns over their mansion in Lady Musgrave Road. But her father's Chinatown haunts are out of bounds and the airy rooms of their home are filled with her mother's uncontrollable rages - rages against which Fay rebels as she grows into a headstrong woman. As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, Fay's eyes are opened to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. And when her mother decides that she must marry the racketeer Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that will lead to sacrifice and betrayal.

Show Me a Mountain

Finalist in Fiction for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Taking along her younger sister, she flees their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still treated as a second-class citizen. From a room in a boarding house and a job at a supply store, Gloria finds her way to a house of ill repute on the edge of the city, intrigued by the glamorous, financially independent women within.It is an unlikely place to meet the love of your life, but here she encounters Pao, a Chinatown racketeer and a loyal customer who will become something more. It is also an unlikely place to gain a passion for social justice, but it is one of the house's proprietors who instills in Gloria new ideas about the rights of women and all humankind, eventually propelling her to Cuba, where even greater change is underway, and where Gloria must choose between the life she has made for herself and the one that might be. Alive with the energy of a country at a crossroads, this is a story of love in many forms, and of Gloria's evolution-from a frightened girl on the run to a woman fully possessed of her own power.

A Novel

A richly imagined, wholly engrossing and utterly captivating novel that tells the remarkable history of twentieth century Jamaica as seen through the eyes of Pao, a Chinese-Jamaican racketeer

Emily A. Holmes

Susie A. Hales

Martina Di Simplicio

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Imagery-Based Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder and Mood Instability

Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Gloria's desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own. Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening that she must reconcile with the realities of her life, her love of Jamaica and a past that is never far behind her. Set against the turbulent backdrop of a country on the cusp of a new era, Gloria is an enthralling and illuminating story of love and redemption.

In the late 1950's NACA and the Department of Defense had a problem. They could not figure out how to make a heat shield for manned spacecraft or ICBMs. The Air Force used heat-sink metals, especially copper and the Navy, on Polaris, used a beryllium heat sink shield. The Space Task Group, in March, 1958, were leaning toward the heat sink method. The Huntsville, Alabama museum for the tested nose cones all show pointed, refractory types. Then Dr. Nininger, a renowned meteoriticist, revealed to NASA's Julian Allen that meteors that land successfully are blunt and pitted. Allen claimed this discovery. Then an unknown potato peeler inventor, Everett Young, disclosed his patented invention for manned reentry to earth. It used a sandwiched cellular construction with permeable substrate, differential ablation and a vacuum gap. NASA copied his ideas and used them on Gemini, Apollo, and now Constellation spacecraft heat shields. Young's family suffered severely as a result of NASA's disregard for the real heat shield inventor and the job promised him.

Heatshield Inventor

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD I was just a boy when I come to Jamaica. Kingston, 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao steps off the ship from China with his mother and brother, after his father has died fighting for the revolution. They are to live with Zhang, the 'godfather' of Chinatown, who mesmerises Pao with stories of glorious Chinese socialism on one hand, and the reality of his protection business on the other. When Pao takes over the family's affairs he becomes a powerful man. He sets his sights on marrying well, but when Gloria Campbell, a black prostitute, comes to him for help he is drawn to her beauty and strength. They begin a relationship that continues even after Pao marries Fay Wong, the 'acceptable' but headstrong daughter of a wealthy Chinese merchant. As the political violence escalates in the 1960s the lines between Pao's socialist ideals and private ambitions become blurred. Jamaica is transforming, the tides of change are rising, and the one-time boss of Chinatown finds himself cast adrift. Richly imagined and utterly captivating, Pao is a dazzling tale of race, class and colour, love and ambition, and a country at a historical crossroads.

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