- Home
- Fiction
- Contemporary Fiction
- The Dragon Can’t Dance
The Dragon Can’t Dance
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.
Shipping to: UK & EU
UK Standard Delivery: £3 - 2-3 business days
UK Premium Delivery: £5 - Next working day delivery
EU Standard Delivery: Calculated at Checkout - 10-12 business days
Orders are sent by Royal Mail (UK) or FedEx / Deutsche Post (EU) and are tracked
Free delivery (UK) on orders over £35
Join Faber Members for 10% off your first order. Use code members10.
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.
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.
Critic Reviews
A deeply affecting and satisfying novel distinguished by intense lyrical writing.
Critic Reviews
Carnival leaps out of these pages with deafening steel bands, pageantry and dance.
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.
Read MoreEarlLovelace
More books by Earl Lovelace
Also Recommended
Browse a selection of books we think you might also like, with genre matches and a few wildcards thrown in.