A Black Englishman A Novel

by Slaughter, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780312424282
• ISBN10: 0312424280
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

ndia, 1920: exotic, glamorous, and violent, as the country begins to resist Englands colonial grip. In the midst of this turmoil, Isabel, a young, abused British military wife, begins a passionate liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor and Oxford graduate who insists, against all odds, on the right to be both black and British. Their secret devotion to each other takes them across India in a terrifying, deadly race against time and tradition. This powerful and erotic love story combines the themes of colonial exploitation, political and ethnic tensions, race and sexuality, and the many forms of partition, both secular and religious, that endanger our world.

Author Biography

Carolyn Slaughter was born in New Delhi, India, and spent most of her childhood in the Kalahari Desert. She is the author of eight other novels and the memoir Before the Knife. She now lives in the United States.

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"A beautiful, haunting love story, set against a simmering backdrop of religious violence and political turmoil."--Publishers Weekly

 

"Twenty-three-year-old narrator Isabel Webb is a spunky Englishwoman [in a] dangerous love affair in a novel [wherein] much is possible."--Lorraine Adams, The Washington Post

 

"A fanciful embroidering of the life of [the author's] grandmother, [reinvented as Isabel,] . . . whose very body becomes a battleground for the dueling forces of imperial rule and native independence."--Elle