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A beautiful and tragic tale of the child Bethany Bettany, abandoned by her mother to hostile relatives, and of Guyana, a mixed up and confused country searching for an identity. Mingling Creole with English, and featuring magic realism, a lyrical text and a tender and heartbreaking insight into the dreams and desires of a five-year-old, Bethany Bettany is a seductive and inventive book. 'In Bethany Bettany ... he has created his fullest, most concrete novelistic world so far.' The Guardian

Written in a complex rhyming verse form, Bloodlines deals with interracial relationships and the harrowing legacy of slavery. From the time of the American Civil War to the present day, the characters roam freely through their inner world dreaming of an idyllic Africa.

This volume brings together the best poetry from D'Aguiar's previous collections. It is poetry that reflects in its language, rhythms, and subject matter what it is like to live between two cultures. It shifts from evocations of Guyanese village life to the council estates of London.

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The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North.