Housing Lark
Descriere
Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together. But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley group of hustlers and schemers, Trinidadians and Jamaicans, men and women make their dreams a reality?'Selvon's meticulously observed narratives of displaced Londoners' lives created a template for how to write about migrant, and postmigrant, London for countless writers who have followed in his wake, including Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith' Caryl Phillips.
Despre autor
Samuel Dickson Selvon a fost un scriitor născut în Trinidad, care s-a mutat la Londra, Anglia, în 1950. Romanul său din 1956, „The Lonely Londoners”, este inovator prin utilizarea limbii engleze creolizate, sau „limbă de națiune”, atât pentru narațiune, cât și pentru dialog.
