Cambridge by Caryl Phillips

Cambridge (Vintage International) (Picador Books)

by Caryl Phillips

One of England's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, genteel Englishwoman.

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4 of 5 stars

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Subtle and subversive, with a narrative structure unlike anything else I have read

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