The Whale House: And Other Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845232496 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Quite intriguing Amazon Customer This book was quite intriguing, kept you expecting more in each story. I look forward to more of this author's work.. "Wonderfully different collection of short stories" according to Ghislaine A. Agostini. Lovely collection of short stories and that are often woven together. It shows Trinidad in all rawness without the need to appear a book written only for the Caribbean following. Regardless of ethnicity, culture and social status we all suffer the same problems.. "Life in an industrialized Caribbean island, good and bad, as told through a collection of short stories." according to Richard. Enjoyable reading for anyone who wants to sample authentic flavours of various aspects of West Indian society. The stories paint vivid images of lifestyles and landscapes in the Caribbean.
The Whale House gives us a universal commentary on what it means to be human and flawed. wordsofcolour/the-whale-house-and-other-stories/The Whale House is a well crafted portrait of a culture that is likely unfamiliar, as well as an exploration of personal and national identity, the uncanny yet familiar, and feminist themes that are forceful without ever being presumptuous. Jérôme CooperDundee University Review of the Artsdura-dundee/2015/10/20/whale-house-and-other-stories/Sharon Millar's lyrical debut short-story collection gives us achi
What ties the collection together is Sharon Millar’s achievement of a distinctively personal voice: cool, unsentimental and empathetic. A boy is killed on a government minister’s orders as part of his mission to clean up the country and others made complicit must explore their consciences; a youth gets ready to play his role in the country’s lucrative kidnap business; a sister tries to make peace with the parents of the white American girl her brother has murdered; a gangster makes his posthumous lament. If irony is the only way to inscribe contemporary Trinidad, there is also room for both generous humor and the possibility of redemption.. Trinidad in all its social tumult is ever present in these stories, which range across the country’s different ethnic communities, across rural and urban settings, from locals and expatriates to the moneyed elite and the poor scrabbling for survival