Book description
Caryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and
fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a
sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and
continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer
on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI
posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.
Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Award in
1994, and was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize.
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 won the James Tait Black
Memorial Award. Caryl Phillips has also won the Martin Luther King
Memorial Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, 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.
