Sie stieg auf den Berg der Limonen
- 336 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
Joan Riley Poradie kníh
Joan Riley je autorkou, ktorá sa zameriava na sprostredkovanie skúseností Afrokaribčanov v Anglicku. Jej písanie často čerpá z osobných postrehov a sociálnej práce, aby osvetlila životy žien z karibského prostredia. Riley sa vo svojej tvorbe venuje témam identity a začlenenia, a to prenikavou empatiou.
- 1998
- 1987
Waiting in the twilight
- 192 stránok
- 7 hodin čítania
This is the moving story of Adella, who moves to Jamaica where life seems to promise so much—a respectable career and the chance of professional status as a seamstress. Adella falls in love with Stanton, whom she eventually follows to England—and who then deserts her. Now a grandmother, Adella waits for her husband to return, haunted by memories and assessing what has been achieved over the years.
- 1985
The Unbelonging
- 160 stránok
- 6 hodin čítania
Her father's violence and her new classmate's hostility force Hyacinth, eleven, to try to forget her new home in England by dreaming about her old one in Jamaica
