Cambridge
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409079859
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Cambridge

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Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and Christianised by his first master in England and now struggling to maintain his dignity.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409079859
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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About the author

Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.

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Colour Me English
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Praise for Cambridge

A dazzling act of historical reclamation

Independent

A striking novel that pushes you dizzily into another time and place... Reading it is like being in the middle of a vibrant dream

Sunday Times

Caryl Phillips has proved himself to be among the best and most productive writers of his generation...with Cambridge he takes a firm step towards joining the company of the literary giants of our time

New York Times

Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso

The Times

Phillips points up the hypocrisy and humiliation of a society at breaking point; revealing it with subtlety, humour and humanity

Sunday Telegraph

This powerful, seductively readable book, set in a 19th century slave plantation, finally puts the sickening realities of the slave trade firmly on the map

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