Placeholder text

Go to cart

The Housing Lark

By Sam Selvon

Product Image: The Housing Lark

The Housing Lark

0 - Used - good
Description
The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon A Penguin Classic Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark explores the Caribbean migrant experience in the "Mother Country" by following a group of friends as they attempt to buy a home together. Despite encountering a racist and predatory rental market, the friends scheme, often comically, to find a literal and figurative place of their own. Will these motley folks, male and female, Black and Indian, from Trinidad and Jamaica, dreamers, hustlers, and artists, be able to achieve this milestone of upward mobility? Unique and wonderful, comic and serious, cynical and tenderhearted, The Housing Lark poses the question of whether their "lark," or quixotic idea of finding a home, can ever become a reality. Kittitian-British novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips contributes a foreword, while postcolonial literature scholar Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2020-01-14
Publication Date:
2020-01-14
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0143133969
ISBN13:
9780143133964
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
197 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out