Bøger af Jamaica Kincaid

Forfatteren Jamaica Kincaid har et stort forfatterskab bag sig. Hun er en af favoritterne til Nobelprisen i litteratur, og som tænker er hun en stor fornøjelse at lytte til og lade sig inspirere af.Kincaid er optaget af at opløse tidsbegrebet, hun elsker sin have, og skønheden i planter, viden og sprog.Dette afsnit består af en kort introduktion til forfatteren, og derefter en samtale mellem Line Miller, forlagschef for oversat litteratur Politikens Forlag og Jamaica Kincaid.

Annie John er et lykkeligt, ubekymret barn på Antigua i Caribien. Som tiårig er hendes yndlingsbeskæftigelse at sidde og se på, mens hendes mor finder minderne frem fra den gamle kuffert som rummer hele hendes tilværelse. Men Annie er ikke ti år gammel for evigt. Hun forandres, og den kærlighed hun kendte i moderens omsorg bliver til modvilje og uforsonlighed.Annie John er et både smukt og smerteligt portræt af en ung piges opvækst, hendes længsel efter at finde og forstå sig selv, og en fortælling om det lille skridt fra kærlighed til afsky, som det kan udspille sig i en familie.

Annie John, the headstrong, brilliant heroine of Jamaica Kincaid's bestseller, is a child of Antigua but an adolescent of the whole world. Her passage into young adulthood-the tumultuous love of her mother and their gradual separation-is a story that will speak to listeners of all ages. Internationally acclaimed author Jamaica Kincaid has written a true contemporary classic, this generation's Catcher in the Rye.

A beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.

Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she could hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack Labatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's is an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is "e;the black room of the world"e; that is Xuela's barrenness and motherlessness. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperbackLucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis's and Mariah's lives, she is also unravelling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time.

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up.Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.