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Books : Fiction : Contemporary Fiction: 1970 Onwards : Authors A-Z : K : Kempadoo, Oonya
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Oonya Kempadoo's debut novel has a simple enough plot as four young girls grow up in Tamarind Grove, Kempadoo's version of 1970's Guyana. The girls seem to do all the usual growing up things but subtly underpinning the coming-of-age stories are a series of strange and increasingly powerful currents from the world beyond their young lives. Kempadoo is exuberantly uninhibited about the girls sexual education. From buying bras to persuading an uncle to have sex with a piano there is a carefree eroticism, but it is the political and social upheavals that ultimately have the bigger impact. The story is recounted by Lula, a girl from a mixed white, black and Indian family. For her and her friends the sound of distant gunshots is a cause for excitement, but for her family it is a far more serious portent of the ever more wide spread crime and corruption that surrounds them. Watching it all is the Buxton Spice mango tree--"swelling itself up with all the secrets"--as the combination of explosive racial politics and hormone fuelled puberty both come to shattering conclusions. --Nick Wroe
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The Caribbean island of Tobago is the setting for Oonya Kempadoo's second novel, Tide Running. The story's narrators are handsome, brooding Cliff, a reserved 20-year-old living in Plymouth, one of the roughest towns on the island, and Bella, a mixed-race woman who comes to live on Tobago with her English husband and young son.While Cliff and his brother Ossie live in unemployed boredom and poverty with their mother, sister and baby niece (fathers and responsible adult males do not figure here), Bella and Peter--a high-flying corporate lawyer--live in a David Hockney-inspired architect-designed home fit for a film star. Surprisingly, an unlikely friendship develops. Although innocent at first, with the brothers happy to hang out at the house watching videos, or on day trips to the island¹s beaches, something darker, and unsettling, begins to surface. Street-wise, cheeky Ossie takes a back seat as his quieter brother slowly lowers his guard. Before long, Bella finds herself drawn to Cliff's striking beauty, and a sexual tension, charged with excitement and danger, hangs in the steamy Tobagan air. Unwittingly, though, it seems that Bella has unleashed a dangerous undercurrent and can only watch, helpless, as the backwash gathers speed and events spiral towards the inevitable.
Kempadoo has not only switched continents for Tide Running--her highly acclaimed debut Buxton Spice was set in Guyana--she has also changed tone, from the flowing exuberance of childhood sexual awakenings to an altogether more serious, troublesome tale of trust and responsibilities. If you can cut through the challenging Tobagan patois-this is not a book to be rushed--Tide Running is an illuminating, if disturbing tale of modern-day Caribbean life and the repercussions of Western culture. --Carey Green
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Oonya Kempadoo's debut novel has a simple enough plot as four young girls grow up in Tamarind Grove, Kempadoo's version of 1970's Guyana. The girls seem to do all the usual growing up things but subtly underpinning the coming-of-age stories are a series of strange and increasingly powerful currents from the world beyond their young lives. Kempadoo is exuberantly uninhibited about the girls sexual education. From buying bras to persuading an uncle to have sex with a piano there is a carefree eroticism, but it is the political and social upheavals that ultimately have the bigger impact. The story is recounted by Lula, a girl from a mixed white, black and Indian family. For her and her friends the sound of distant gunshots is a cause for excitement, but for her family it is a far more serious portent of the ever more wide spread crime and corruption that surrounds them. Watching it all is the Buxton Spice mango tree--"swelling itself up with all the secrets"--as the combination of explosive racial politics and hormone fuelled puberty both come to shattering conclusions. --Nick Wroe
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Oonya Kempadoo's debut novel has a simple enough plot as four young girls grow up in Tamarind Grove, Kempadoo's version of 1970's Guyana. The girls seem to do all the usual growing up things but subtly underpinning the coming-of-age stories are a series of strange and increasingly powerful currents from the world beyond their young lives. Kempadoo is exuberantly uninhibited about the girls sexual education. From buying bras to persuading an uncle to have sex with a piano there is a carefree eroticism, but it is the political and social upheavals that ultimately have the bigger impact. The story is recounted by Lula, a girl from a mixed white, black and Indian family. For her and her friends the sound of distant gunshots is a cause for excitement, but for her family it is a far more serious portent of the ever more wide spread crime and corruption that surrounds them. Watching it all is the Buxton Spice mango tree--"swelling itself up with all the secrets"--as the combination of explosive racial politics and hormone fuelled puberty both come to shattering conclusions. --Nick Wroe
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Oonya Kempadoo's debut novel has a simple enough plot as four young girls grow up in Tamarind Grove, Kempadoo's version of 1970's Guyana. The girls seem to do all the usual growing up things but subtly underpinning the coming-of-age stories are a series of strange and increasingly powerful currents from the world beyond their young lives. Kempadoo is exuberantly uninhibited about the girls sexual education. From buying bras to persuading an uncle to have sex with a piano there is a carefree eroticism, but it is the political and social upheavals that ultimately have the bigger impact. The story is recounted by Lula, a girl from a mixed white, black and Indian family. For her and her friends the sound of distant gunshots is a cause for excitement, but for her family it is a far more serious portent of the ever more wide spread crime and corruption that surrounds them. Watching it all is the Buxton Spice mango tree--"swelling itself up with all the secrets"--as the combination of explosive racial politics and hormone fuelled puberty both come to shattering conclusions. --Nick Wroe
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Oonya Kempadoo's debut novel has a simple enough plot as four young girls grow up in Tamarind Grove, Kempadoo's version of 1970's Guyana. The girls seem to do all the usual growing up things but subtly underpinning the coming-of-age stories are a series of strange and increasingly powerful currents from the world beyond their young lives. Kempadoo is exuberantly uninhibited about the girls sexual education. From buying bras to persuading an uncle to have sex with a piano there is a carefree eroticism, but it is the political and social upheavals that ultimately have the bigger impact. The story is recounted by Lula, a girl from a mixed white, black and Indian family. For her and her friends the sound of distant gunshots is a cause for excitement, but for her family it is a far more serious portent of the ever more wide spread crime and corruption that surrounds them. Watching it all is the Buxton Spice mango tree--"swelling itself up with all the secrets"--as the combination of explosive racial politics and hormone fuelled puberty both come to shattering conclusions. --Nick Wroe
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The Caribbean island of Tobago is the setting for Oonya Kempadoo's second novel, Tide Running. The story's narrators are handsome, brooding Cliff, a reserved 20-year-old living in Plymouth, one of the roughest towns on the island, and Bella, a mixed-race woman who comes to live on Tobago with her English husband and young son.While Cliff and his brother Ossie live in unemployed boredom and poverty with their mother, sister and baby niece (fathers and responsible adult males do not figure here), Bella and Peter--a high-flying corporate lawyer--live in a David Hockney-inspired architect-designed home fit for a film star. Surprisingly, an unlikely friendship develops. Although innocent at first, with the brothers happy to hang out at the house watching videos, or on day trips to the island¹s beaches, something darker, and unsettling, begins to surface. Street-wise, cheeky Ossie takes a back seat as his quieter brother slowly lowers his guard. Before long, Bella finds herself drawn to Cliff's striking beauty, and a sexual tension, charged with excitement and danger, hangs in the steamy Tobagan air. Unwittingly, though, it seems that Bella has unleashed a dangerous undercurrent and can only watch, helpless, as the backwash gathers speed and events spiral towards the inevitable.
Kempadoo has not only switched continents for Tide Running--her highly acclaimed debut Buxton Spice was set in Guyana--she has also changed tone, from the flowing exuberance of childhood sexual awakenings to an altogether more serious, troublesome tale of trust and responsibilities. If you can cut through the challenging Tobagan patois-this is not a book to be rushed--Tide Running is an illuminating, if disturbing tale of modern-day Caribbean life and the repercussions of Western culture. --Carey Green
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The Caribbean island of Tobago is the setting for Oonya Kempadoo's second novel, Tide Running. The story's narrators are handsome, brooding Cliff, a reserved 20-year-old living in Plymouth, one of the roughest towns on the island, and Bella, a mixed-race woman who comes to live on Tobago with her English husband and young son.While Cliff and his brother Ossie live in unemployed boredom and poverty with their mother, sister and baby niece (fathers and responsible adult males do not figure here), Bella and Peter--a high-flying corporate lawyer--live in a David Hockney-inspired architect-designed home fit for a film star. Surprisingly, an unlikely friendship develops. Although innocent at first, with the brothers happy to hang out at the house watching videos, or on day trips to the island¹s beaches, something darker, and unsettling, begins to surface. Street-wise, cheeky Ossie takes a back seat as his quieter brother slowly lowers his guard. Before long, Bella finds herself drawn to Cliff's striking beauty, and a sexual tension, charged with excitement and danger, hangs in the steamy Tobagan air. Unwittingly, though, it seems that Bella has unleashed a dangerous undercurrent and can only watch, helpless, as the backwash gathers speed and events spiral towards the inevitable.
Kempadoo has not only switched continents for Tide Running--her highly acclaimed debut Buxton Spice was set in Guyana--she has also changed tone, from the flowing exuberance of childhood sexual awakenings to an altogether more serious, troublesome tale of trust and responsibilities. If you can cut through the challenging Tobagan patois-this is not a book to be rushed--Tide Running is an illuminating, if disturbing tale of modern-day Caribbean life and the repercussions of Western culture. --Carey Green
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Oonya Kempadoo's debut novel has a simple enough plot as four young girls grow up in Tamarind Grove, Kempadoo's version of 1970's Guyana. The girls seem to do all the usual growing up things but subtly underpinning the coming-of-age stories are a series of strange and increasingly powerful currents from the world beyond their young lives. Kempadoo is exuberantly uninhibited about the girls sexual education. From buying bras to persuading an uncle to have sex with a piano there is a carefree eroticism, but it is the political and social upheavals that ultimately have the bigger impact. The story is recounted by Lula, a girl from a mixed white, black and Indian family. For her and her friends the sound of distant gunshots is a cause for excitement, but for her family it is a far more serious portent of the ever more wide spread crime and corruption that surrounds them. Watching it all is the Buxton Spice mango tree--"swelling itself up with all the secrets"--as the combination of explosive racial politics and hormone fuelled puberty both come to shattering conclusions. --Nick Wroe
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The Caribbean island of Tobago is the setting for Oonya Kempadoo's second novel, Tide Running. The story's narrators are handsome, brooding Cliff, a reserved 20-year-old living in Plymouth, one of the roughest towns on the island, and Bella, a mixed-race woman who comes to live on Tobago with her English husband and young son.While Cliff and his brother Ossie live in unemployed boredom and poverty with their mother, sister and baby niece (fathers and responsible adult males do not figure here), Bella and Peter--a high-flying corporate lawyer--live in a David Hockney-inspired architect-designed home fit for a film star. Surprisingly, an unlikely friendship develops. Although innocent at first, with the brothers happy to hang out at the house watching videos, or on day trips to the island¹s beaches, something darker, and unsettling, begins to surface. Street-wise, cheeky Ossie takes a back seat as his quieter brother slowly lowers his guard. Before long, Bella finds herself drawn to Cliff's striking beauty, and a sexual tension, charged with excitement and danger, hangs in the steamy Tobagan air. Unwittingly, though, it seems that Bella has unleashed a dangerous undercurrent and can only watch, helpless, as the backwash gathers speed and events spiral towards the inevitable.
Kempadoo has not only switched continents for Tide Running--her highly acclaimed debut Buxton Spice was set in Guyana--she has also changed tone, from the flowing exuberance of childhood sexual awakenings to an altogether more serious, troublesome tale of trust and responsibilities. If you can cut through the challenging Tobagan patois-this is not a book to be rushed--Tide Running is an illuminating, if disturbing tale of modern-day Caribbean life and the repercussions of Western culture. --Carey Green
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Oonya Kempadoo's debut novel has a simple enough plot as four young girls grow up in Tamarind Grove; Kempadoo's version of 1970's Guyana. The girls seem to do all the usual growing up things but subtly underpinning the coming of age stories are a series of strange and increasingly powerful currents from the world beyond their young lives. Kempadoo is exuberantly uninhibited about the girls sexual education. From buying bras to persuading an uncle to have sex with a piano there is a carefree eroticism, but it is the political and social upheavals that ultimately have the bigger impact. The story is recounted by Lula, a girl from a mixed white, black and Indian family. For her and her friends the sound of distant gunshots is a cause for excitement, but for her family it is a far more serious portent of the ever more wide spread crime and corruption that surrounds them. Watching it all is the Buxton Spice mango tree--"swelling itself up with all the secrets"--as the combination of explosive racial politics and hormone fuelled puberty both come to shattering conclusions. --Nick Wroe
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The Caribbean island of Tobago is the setting for Oonya Kempadoo's second novel, Tide Running. The story's narrators are handsome, brooding Cliff, a reserved 20-year-old living in Plymouth, one of the roughest towns on the island, and Bella, a mixed-race woman who comes to live on Tobago with her English husband and young son.While Cliff and his brother Ossie live in unemployed boredom and poverty with their mother, sister and baby niece (fathers and responsible adult males do not figure here), Bella and Peter--a high-flying corporate lawyer--live in a David Hockney-inspired architect-designed home fit for a film star. Surprisingly, an unlikely friendship develops. Although innocent at first, with the brothers happy to hang out at the house watching videos, or on day trips to the island¹s beaches, something darker, and unsettling, begins to surface. Street-wise, cheeky Ossie takes a back seat as his quieter brother slowly lowers his guard. Before long, Bella finds herself drawn to Cliff's striking beauty, and a sexual tension, charged with excitement and danger, hangs in the steamy Tobagan air. Unwittingly, though, it seems that Bella has unleashed a dangerous undercurrent and can only watch, helpless, as the backwash gathers speed and events spiral towards the inevitable.
Kempadoo has not only switched continents for Tide Running--her highly acclaimed debut Buxton Spice was set in Guyana--she has also changed tone, from the flowing exuberance of childhood sexual awakenings to an altogether more serious, troublesome tale of trust and responsibilities. If you can cut through the challenging Tobagan patois-this is not a book to be rushed--Tide Running is an illuminating, if disturbing tale of modern-day Caribbean life and the repercussions of Western culture. --Carey Green
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Oonya Kempadoo's debut novel has a simple enough plot as four young girls grow up in Tamarind Grove, Kempadoo's version of 1970's Guyana. The girls seem to do all the usual growing up things but subtly underpinning the coming-of-age stories are a series of strange and increasingly powerful currents from the world beyond their young lives. Kempadoo is exuberantly uninhibited about the girls sexual education. From buying bras to persuading an uncle to have sex with a piano there is a carefree eroticism, but it is the political and social upheavals that ultimately have the bigger impact. The story is recounted by Lula, a girl from a mixed white, black and Indian family. For her and her friends the sound of distant gunshots is a cause for excitement, but for her family it is a far more serious portent of the ever more wide spread crime and corruption that surrounds them. Watching it all is the Buxton Spice mango tree--"swelling itself up with all the secrets"--as the combination of explosive racial politics and hormone fuelled puberty both come to shattering conclusions. --Nick Wroe