Book description
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.
Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New
York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is
the author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction.
Crossing the River
was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and Caryl Phillips has won
the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship 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 Best of Young British
Writers 1993.
A Distant Shore
won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and
Dancing in the Dark
was shortlisted in 2006.
