Final Passage
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409002499
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Final Passage

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'Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation' New York Times

Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Unsatisfied with life on the island, Leila decides to leave her friends and follow her mother overseas, taking her restless husband Michael and her young son with her. Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms.
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409002499
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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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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Praise for Final Passage

The Final Passage marks the debut of a talented writer...Phillips writes a nicely elegant prose, has a sharply observant eye, and the effect is truthful, modest and convincing

Guardian

Like Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Phillips writes of times so heady and chaotic and of characters so compelling that time moves as if guided by the moon and dreams

Los Angeles Times Book Review

One of the literary giants of our time

New York Times