- Published: 15 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781409016946
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Crossing the River
- Published: 15 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781409016946
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
[Phillips is] a master ventriloquist, giving immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters about whom the reader cares deeply... Wonderfully individual
San Francisco Chronicle
[T]here are gems of impassioned writing quilted within this ambitious cross-cultural novel of loss and reconciliation
Sunday Times
Crossing the River is dense with event and ingeniously structured. It requires concentration and is worth it
Independent
A compassionate, forceful and profoundly moving revelation
Scotland on Sunday
An ambitious exploration of oppression, loss and reconciliation that employs a collage of styles and ranges across continents and centuries
Nicci Gerrard, Observer
Caryl Phillips' exploration of the relations betweeen black and white is nuanced, humane and sypathetic. And his deep awareness of the historical process is combined with an exceptionally intelligent prose style - clear, unencumbered and compassionate
New Statesman and Society
Epic and frequently astonishing
The Times