The Worlds Within Her

Literature & Fiction

Neil Bissoondath

Contemporary

Vintage

Nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize, A Casual Brutality is a powerful, dark novel about the failure of a decent man to come to terms with the moral disintegration of the Caribbean island of his birth. Casaquemada is a fragile West Indian republic divided by racial antagonism, lured into a spurious nationalism by impotent rulers, awash in a mindless consumerism fostered by easy money and a lust for an imported version of the good life. Raj Ramsingh is a Toronto doctor who returns to his native island only to leave it again, having paid a tragic price for his unwillingness to recognize the cruel imperatives of the men who will determine Casaquemada's fate. A Casual Brutality takes the reader into a world of terrifying dualities: illusion has become destruction; decency had become helplessness; nationhood has become tribalism; and a violent future looks only towards a brutal past. A novel as timely now as when it was first published in 1988.

A Casual Brutality

Penguin

William Heinemann, Ltd.

What really has brought Dr Raj Ramsingh back from Toronto's urbanity to this Caribbean island of his birth? Has he been seduced, like so many, by the lure of Casaquemada's easy, oil-acquired wealth? But now the flow of money is drying up, the orgy of acquisition replaced by the anger of sudden deprivation. The economic boom has left in its wake a dislocated society, fraught with violence and fear.

Scribner

Minerva

The Ark in the Garden: Fables for Our Times

ROHINTON MISTRY

JANE URQUHART

TIMOTHY FINDLEY

Margaret, Atwood

Yves Beauchemin

MacFarlane Walter and Ross, Toronto

On the eve of uncertain tomorrows

Short Stories & Anthologies

Lester, Orpen Dennys

Cartes postales de l'enfer

Literary

Borï¿½al

Le marché aux illusions

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

BOREAL

Tous ces mondes en elle

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