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Trinidad, 1848. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home from France to his beloved mother's deathbed. Despite the Emancipation Act, his childhood home is in the grip of colonial power, its people riven by the legacy of slavery. Michel Jean finds himself caught between the powerful and the dispossessed. As an artist, he enjoys the governor's patronage, painting for him the island's vistas and its women; as a Trinidadian he shares easy wisdom and nips of rum with the local boat-builders. But domestic tensions and haunting reminders ...

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Light Falling on Bamboo 2013, Tindal Street Press, London

ISBN-13: 9781781251584

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Light Falling on Bamboo 2012, Tindal Street Press, London

ISBN-13: 9781906994396

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Hardcover