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A thief in the village, [and other stories]

A collection of nine short stories about life in contemporary Jamaica, covering such subjects as a young boy's desire to buy shoes for the cricket team and a girl's adventures on a coconut plantation.

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  • "Thief in the village"@en
  • "Thief in the village, and other stories"

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  • "A collection of nine short stories about life in contemporary Jamaica, on such subjects as a young boy's desire to buy shoes for the cricket team and a girl's adventures on a coconut plantation. Nenna and her brother Man-Man sneak from shadow to tree trunk in the dead of night, concealing themselves while tracking a coconut thief. Gustas barely survives a violent hurricane, trying to save his fruit-laden banana tree. Becky begs her mother for a bicycle, and Fanso longs to know his father who walked out of his life thirteen years earlier."
  • "Coretta Scott King Honor 1989."
  • "A collection of nine short stories about life in contemporary Jamaica, on such subjects as a young boy's desire to buy shoes for the cricket team and a girl's adventures on a coconut plantation."
  • "A collection of nine short stories about life in contemporary Jamaica, covering such subjects as a young boy's desire to buy shoes for the cricket team and a girl's adventures on a coconut plantation."@en
  • "Une série de nouvelles ayant pour cadre la Jamaïque, où enfants, adultes, animaux et arbres vivent en commun des aventures comiques, parfois cruelles, sous le regard férocement implacable du soleil tropical."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Short stories"
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  • "Juvenile works"@en
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  • "A thief in the village, [and other stories]"@en
  • "A Thief in the Village and other stories of Jamaica"
  • "A thief in the village : and other stories"@en
  • "A thief in the village : and other stories"
  • "A thief in the village, and other stories of Jamaica"
  • "A thief in the village and other stories"
  • "A thief in the village and other stories"@en
  • "A thief in the village, and other stories"@en
  • "A thief in the village, and other stories"
  • "Un voleur dans le village"
  • "Un Voleur dans le village"
  • "A thief in the village"@en
  • "A thief in the village"

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