Soucouyant

Type

Book

Authors

Chariandy, David

ISBN 10

1551522268

ISBN 13

9781551522265

Tags

Literary, Trinidadians, Canada, Dementia, Ontario--Scarborough

Abstract

"A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia." "The son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. In his desire to atone for his past and live anew, he is compelled to imagine his mother's life before it all slips into darkness - her arrival in Canada during the early sixties, her childhood in Trinidad during World War II, and her lurking secret that each have tried to forget."--Flap of the cover.

Description

Synopsis
A beautiful cross-cultural novel about loss, remembrance, and the unbreakable ties between mother and son.

About the Author
David Chariandy is an assistant professor in the English department at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada), specializing in world literature with a focus on Anglo-Caribbean work. He is also co-writing a book on contemporary diasporic theory. This is his first novel.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Bildungsromans
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Psychological fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Chariandy
ISBN: 9781551522265 1551522268
OCLC Number: 1018473236
Awards: Winner of IndieFab awards (Literary Fiction) 2007
Commended for Governor General's Literary Awards (Fiction) 2007
Description: 200 pages ; 21 cm
Other Titles: Novel of forgetting
Responsibility: David Chariandy.

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