My Favorite Caribbean Novels
Discover the best Caribbean novels with our curated list of favorite books. Explore captivating stories, rich cultures, and unforgettable characters from the Caribbean literary world.
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Salt
by Earl Lovelace
A West Indian novel of "generous, torrential prose"(New York Times Book Review), winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. One hundred years after Emancipation, the diverse people of TrinidadAfrican, Asian, and Europeanhave not settled into the New World. In Salt, an unforgettable cast of men and women strive with wit and passion to make sense of life in an evolving homeland.
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The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat
Memorializing the forgotten victims of ethnic cleansing in Haiti in the 1930s, this novel revolves around a Haitian-born servant girl and her lover, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, as they struggle against the violence.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
