Books written by George Lamming

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  The Pleasures of Exile

  The text is usefully compared with Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home as a self - study of the Caribbean writer as traveler and expatriate . Unlike McKay , however , Lamming remains heavily invested in defining the parameters of the ...

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  In the Castle of My Skin

  It was the first time he had spoken since Mr. Foster had told him to shut his mouth . He stood turning the hat over in his hand . Mr. Foster's manner had changed again . ' I'll come an ' let you put me up , ' Mr. Foster said , smiling .

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  The George Lamming Reader: The Aesthetics of Decolonisation

  This is accompanied by critical reflections on Lamming's work by noted scholars such as Andaiye and Sandra Pouchet Paquet as well as a foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

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  In the Castle of My Skin

  Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule. 'Rich and riotous' The Times 'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune

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  The Emigrants

  A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people

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  Season of Adventure

  Caribbean novelist George Lamming's classic novel of magic, politics, and cultural identity

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  Natives of My Person

  This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.