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An Island Is a World

(1955)
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"he had been brought up as a Trinidadian . . . In a small island that no one knew anything about."
In the post-War Caribbean colony, as an earlier generation thinks of returning to India, Foster, a young man, goes to England and Rufis his brother leaves for the United States, each in search of himself and his world.
Combining his characteristic humour with a vivid sense of place, Selvon's An Island is a World tells a moving story of personal and intellectual quest in our time.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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