In the castle of my skin - George Lamming

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'

Nine-year-old
G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and
playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s
Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just
as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet
gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that
lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins
to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred
ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George
Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic
innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule.

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