{"product_id":"cliff-michelle-abeng-9780452274839","title":"Abeng","description":"Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in Clare Savage, her Jamaican heroine, who appeared, already grown, in No Telephone to Heaven. Abeng is a kind of prequel to that highly-acclaimed novel and is a small masterpiece in its own right. Here Clare is twelve years old, the light-skinned daughter of a middle-class family, growing up among the complex contradictions of class versus color, blood versus history, harsh reality versus delusion, in a colonized country. In language that surrounds us with a richness of meaning and voices, the several strands of young Clare's heritage are explored: the Maroons, who used the conch shell-the abeng—to pass messages as they fought a guerilla struggle against their English enslavers; and the legacy of Clare's white great-great-grandfater, Judge Savage, who burned his hundred slaves on the eve of their emancipation. A lyrical, explosive coming-of-age story combined with a provocative retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica, this novel is a triumph.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53424043983190,"sku":"9780452274839-G","price":5.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":54175358779734,"sku":"9780452274839-V","price":7.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780452274839_1.jpg?v=1777992842","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/cliff-michelle-abeng-9780452274839","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}