Kale Khan, patriarch of a proud East Indian family living in Trinidad, believes his son's attempts to assimilate are a sign of weakness, and pins his hopes on Jamini, his grandson

Jumbie Bird (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)

Khan, Ismith

Literature & Fiction

Longman Pub. Group

Jumie Bird

Astor-Honor, Inc.

Carnival Day, Tuesday: Port of Spain, Trinidad. Into this heady bacchanalian atmosphere, filled with men and women seeking the sinful anonymity of costumes, in street processions gyrating to the music of steel bands and in bars packed beyond capacity, where menace seems familiar but lurks in unkown places - comes the Obeah Man, Zampi, in search of the beautiful Zolda. 
 By the time the festivities are over, disaster has struck, and the powerful but good Obeah Man Zampi has learnt an all too human lesson in love. 
 "A brilliant revelation of the dark reality under a lively Caribbean surface, The Obeah Man combimes the humour of Samuel Selvon, the pathos of George Lamming and the irony of V S Naipaul all in one." - Frank Birbalsingh, York University. 
"... a compelling story of living in changing times ... its message and impressions are long lasting ... The Obeah Man is a very human story." - Cecil Foster, The Toronto Review

The Obeah Man, The

British & Irish

TSAR Publications

Told in two voices, one standard English, the other Creole, this novel is an ironic fable of a tragi-comic self-deception. It portrays the tensions between authority, freedom, law, and love in Trinidadian society through the character Manko and the stories of the other local yard dwellers. These range from memories of Trinidad's popular uprisings to a prostitute's narrative of what has led to her occupation. In exploring the popular folk archetype of the self-crucified preacher, the novel takes the balladic form of the calypso to greater depths.

Crucifixion (Caribbean Classics)

United States

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

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