Higher Ground
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
``Phillips calls these three novellas a novel, and they are so allied in feeling, though not in style or subject matter, and so superbly written that it would be carping not to go along,'' noted PW . Each story captures an apocalyptic moment in the life of a protagonist being tried in his or her innermost self by history's cruelties.
