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Duppy Conqueror
Ferdinand Dennis
ABOUT THE BOOK
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£5.99
Marshall Sarjeant is born at the beginning of the 20th century in Paradise,
Jamaica. As a young man, he is entrusted with a mythical quest to overcome a curse that has been put on his family. He must do this by returning to Africa from where family members were brought as slaves.
Marshall’s journey is a long, taking him first to wartime Liverpool and then,
London where he marries and mixes with a clubland crowd of gamblers,
musicians and politicians. In Africa, he finds a continent in the turbulent
throes of attempting to escape a colonial past. Returning to Paradise, Marshall’s life turns full circle in his epic mission to defeat the duppy, or ghost that started him on his voyage.
In Duppy Conqueror, first published in 1998, Ferdinand Dennis has created a powerful narrative of the Afro-Caribbean experience in which the personal and the political seamlessly collide.
Fiction | ISBN: 9781913109103 | Pub: 15/10/2020 | (ePUB)
Reviews
‘Finally, and most importantly, Duppy Conqueror
brims with humour and low comedy. It is a pleasing change from the wilfully ponderous treatment of historical memory in much contemporary post-colonial fiction’
TLS
'This novel may well prove a landmark in British fiction in capturing a breadth of diasporic experience and a moment in empire’ GUARDIAN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FERDINAND DENNIS
was born in 1956 in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1964, he came to London where he grew up. He has taught creative writing and is the author of the novels, The Sleepless Summer
and The Last Blues Dance. His non-fiction includes Back to Africa: A Journey
and Behind the Frontlines; Journey into Afro-Britain
for which he was awarded the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize. Ferdinand Dennis lives in North London.
Author photo © Thomas Stewart.