Higher Ground
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409000754
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Higher Ground

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A novel in three parts, bound together with passion and sorrow, Higher Ground forms a haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned.

In Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity.

In the first story, a young West African is oppressed by the shadow of slavery; in the second an African-American fights to survive solitary confinement without sacrificing his integrity; in the third a Polish refugee struggles to ward off the increasing isolation of a life in exile.
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409000754
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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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 Higher Ground

Higher Ground is about the destruction of lives, about damage done in one generation being passed on to another. Phillips' book has an urgency and intensity which demands that you read more... to take account of what the voices he has imagined have to say

London Review of Books

Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation

The Times

Remarkable... every page of Phillips writing is convincing, a frightful part of our collective consciousness

Washington Post

The second story in particular is probably the best thing Phillips has ever done

Financial Times

The understated relation between the three parts is haunting and the whole is a work of total conviction

Sunday Times
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