Amongst Thistles And Thorns

Set in Barbados in the early 1950s, this uncompromising novel depicts the pain of childhood in a world where poverty and blackness are despised, and kids are treated as objects on which adults can take out their self-contempt and frustration. Milton Sobers is a nine-year-old on the run from a series of sadistic beatings from both his schoolmaster and his washer-woman mother. Dreaming of a life in Harlem, which is predominately black, open, and free, Milton encounters many comic and sad adventures that inevitably return him to the situation he was trying to escape.

שנה

2011

שפה

English

הוצאה

Peepal Tree Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

186

ISBN

9781845231477

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata