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The Dragon Can't Dance
About this book
'A landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel.' C. L. R. James
'First-class talent.'
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Trinidad, 1970s. Calvary Hill - poverty stricken and rubbish-strewn - is home to a community of people who come together during the joyful yearly town Carnival, becoming larger-than-life versions of themselves. But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples' hopes, and the feeling that 'all o' we is one'?
With an unforgettable cast of characters,
The Dragon Can't Dance is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1 Queen of the Band
- 2 The Princess
- 3 The Dragon
- 4 The Bad John
- 5 The Spectator
- 6 A Call to the Dragon
- 7 Norman ‘Tex’ at the Carnival Fete
- 8 To Be Dragon and Man
- 9 Ash Wednesday
- 10 Friends and Family
- 11 The New Yard
- 12 Outcasts
- 13 The Dragon Dance
- 14 Prison Dance
- 15 The Dragon Can’t Dance
- 16 The Shopkeeper
- 17 The Calypsonian
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright