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Show me a mountain
- Title
- Show me a mountain / Kerry Young.
- Author
- Young, Kerry, 1955-
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2016.
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- Description
- 378 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- From the Costa- and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao, a story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of Jamaican independence. Fay Wong is a woman caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant who conjured a fortune out of nothing; her mother, of African heritage, grew up on a plantation and now reigns over their mansion on Lady Musgrave Road, sipping Earl Grey tea in the Kingston afternoons. But the Chinatown haunts where her father spends his time are out of bounds to Fay, and the rooms of Lady Musgrave Road are filled with her mother's long-kept secrets and uncontrollable rages--rages against which Fay rebels as she grows from a girl into a headstrong woman. As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, striving for independence in a homeland that is trying to do the same, Fay's eyes are opened to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. She encounters gangsters and revolutionaries, priests and prostitutes, and witnesses great sacrifices and betrayals. But when her mother decides that she must marry the racketeer Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that leads to sacrifices and betrayals of her own. In Show Me A Mountain , Kerry Young creates a vivid portrait of a woman and a country struggling to fashion a future unburdened by the past.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-1002
- ISBN
- 9781408869550
- 1408869551
- 9781408843147
- 1408843145
- OCLC
- 933722323
- Author
- Young, Kerry, 1955- author.
- Title
- Show me a mountain / Kerry Young.
- Publisher
- London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-1002