Ernest Palmer's Dream and Other Stories
Ernest Palmer's Dream is a group of stories by Earl McKenzie. In this collection of stories, McKenzie tours the rural Jamaican world in which he was born and raised, the island's towns, and even ventures to Toronto, Canada.
The characters we meet include young scholars who are caught up in the turbulence of cultural relativism, homophobia and madness, the nature of evil and generational conflicts about religious beliefs.
Ernest Palmer's Dream and Other Stories
We meet characters who include young scholars caught up in the turbulence of cultural relativism, homophobia and madness, the nature of evil and generational conflicts about religious beliefs.
Meet a deaconess who takes in a mentally ill woman from the streets, a loner who longs for riches and has a dream which changes his life, and an ageing farm worker whose goal is to get one more shot at earning some money in the United States.
See how political violence impacts the life of a Rastafarian, and meet a group of men in the country who are determined to carry out the wishes of a dead man. We even meet an angry Taino ghost. These stories will entertain and disturb, as well as provoke thought.
| Weight | 0.450000 |
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| Condition | 99 |