Moses Migrating: A Novel
Sam Selvon, with an introduction by Susheila Nasta | | ISBN: 978-0-89410-872-3
$17.95 |
| December 2008/175 pages |
DESCRIPTION
It has been more than 25 years since Moses Aloetta became one of the “Lonely Londoners” in the novel of that name. Now—though an avowed Anglophile—he hankers for Trinidad, for sunshine, Carnival, and rum punch. With characteristic irony and delicacy of touch, Sam Selvon tells the story of Moses’s reencounter with his native land.
Susheila Nasta's new introduction to Selvon's life and work enhances this edition of the novel, which also includes a preface by "Moses" that was written in 1991 for the first US edition of the work.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sam Selvon (1923-1994) was one of the most popular, prolific, and internationally distinguished of Caribbean writers. A native of Trinidad, he is best known for his vivid evocation of East Indians living in the Caribbean and Europe. Susheila Nasta is professor of modern literature at the Open University (UK) and editor of the journal Wasafiri.
“The frothy humor is barbed with a disturbing ambiguity and subversive irony.... Moses Migrating illustrates Selvon’s continuing preoccupation with the theme of the exiles’ displacement and lack of a firm centre.”—Susheila Nasta, Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon
“Moses Migrating is a blistering critique of man’s capacity for deception, self-deception and deception of others.”—Roydon Salick, The Novels of Samuel Selvon