Word: selvon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BRIGHTER SUN (215 pp.)-Samuel Selvon-Viking...
...Brighter Sun is the first novel of young (28) Trinidadian Samuel Selvon, who left his island to work for a British publisher. Its pages are flecked with Caribbean color and sunshine, but Tiger's personal story is neither colorful nor sunny. He and Urmilla were desperately poor and abysmally ignorant. In Barataria they slept on sacking on the floor of their leaky hut, sold their milk and vegetables in the slum neighborhood where they lived, and tried to behave like grownups. For Tiger, that meant working his tiny patch of land, getting drunk now & then on rum bought...