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The Dragon Can't Dance

Earl Lovelace
Barcode 9780571193172
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Release Date: 19/01/1998

Edition: Main - Re-issue
Genre: Fiction
Label: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Publisher: Faber & Faber

But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples' hopes, and the feeling that 'all o' we is one'?

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Dragon Can't Dance is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.

'A landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel.' C. L. R. James

'First-class talent.'
The Voice

Trinidad, 1970s. Calvary Hill - poverty stricken and rubbish-strewn ­­- is home to a community of people who come together during the joyful yearly town Carnival, becoming larger-than-life versions of themselves. But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples' hopes, and the feeling that 'all o' we is one'?

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Dragon Can't Dance is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.