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Crossing the River

"A desperate foolishness. The crops failed. I sold my children."

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  • "Nadat zijn oogst is mislukt, verkoopt een Liberiaan in de 18e eeuw zijn drie kinderen aan een slavenhandelaar."
  • "In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery. From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries. Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a "many-tongued chorus" of common memory-and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland."
  • ""A desperate foolishness. The crops failed. I sold my children.""@en
  • "Nadat zijn oogst is mislukt verkoopt een Liberiaan in de 18e eeuw zijn drie kinderen aan een slavenhandelaar."
  • "In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery. From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips follows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries. Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a "many-tongued chorus" of common memory-and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland."
  • "The story of three different members of the same African American family, one a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a freed slave settling in the "wild West", and one an American GI stationed in England during WWII."
  • "The story of three different members of the same African American family, one a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a freed slave settling in the "wild West", and one an American GI stationed in England during WWII."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść historyczna angielska"
  • "Translations"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Tekstuitgave"

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  • "Crossing the River"@en
  • "Crossing the river"@en
  • "Crossing the river"
  • "De rivier over : roman = The river novel"
  • "Jenseits des Flusses"
  • "Cruzar el río"@es
  • "Cruzar el río"
  • "De rivier over : roman"
  • "Crossing the river : [a novel]"
  • "La traversée du fleuve"

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