Curfew chronicles : a fiction /
"In 2011, the Trinidad government declared a state of emergency and an overnight curfew. The SoE, brought in to combat the crime and killings associated with the drugs trade, was meant to last 15 days but lasted four months. This is the background to these chronicles, but not their substance. T...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leeds, England :
Peepal Tree,
2017
Leeds, England : [2017] |
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| Summary: | "In 2011, the Trinidad government declared a state of emergency and an overnight curfew. The SoE, brought in to combat the crime and killings associated with the drugs trade, was meant to last 15 days but lasted four months. This is the background to these chronicles, but not their substance. They are an imaginative response to the undertones of those days. Taking place over 24 hours, Curfew Chronicles brings together, like a Joyce's Ulysses in miniature, the lives of two dozen characters (including a father and son searching for each other) whose lives intersect in mostly fortuitous but sometimes quite deliberate ways" -- |
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| Physical Description: | 195 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 184523362X 9781845233624 |