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The Dragon Can’t Dance

Earl Lovelace

The Dragon Can’t Dance is an immersive canvas of shanty-town life, a Caribbean classic in which Lovelace’s intimate knowledge of rural Trinidad is brilliantly brought to life.

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Ebook
ISBN
9780571383825
Date Published
22.12.2022

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Summary

‘A landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel.’ C. L. R. James

‘First-class talent.’
The Voice

Trinidad, 1970s. Calvary Hill – poverty stricken and rubbish-strewn ­­– is home to a community of people who come together during the joyful yearly town Carnival, becoming larger-than-life versions of themselves. But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples’ hopes, and the feeling that ‘all o’ we is one’?

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Dragon Can’t Dance is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.

Critic Reviews

Earl Lovelace’s writing has a picturesque yet dark energy, with a carnival snaking through the novel like a dangerous spine.

Guardian

Critic Reviews

Trinidad . . . is evoked in generous, torrential prose that seems to hold every complexity – of history, of ethnicity, of reason and magic alike – within its rushing energy.

New York Times

Critic Reviews

A deeply affecting and satisfying novel distinguished by intense lyrical writing.

Observer

Critic Reviews

Carnival leaps out of these pages with deafening steel bands, pageantry and dance.

Daily Telegraph

EarlLovelace

Earl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad, and has spent most of his life on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. His books include While Gods Are Falling, winner of the BP Independence Award, the Caribbean classic The Dragon Can’t Dance, and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize.

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