Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Caryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.
'Epic and frequently astonishing'
The Times
'Its resonance continues to deepen'
New York Times
| ISBN: | 9780099498261 |
| Publication date: | 7th September 2006 |
| Author: | Caryl Phillips |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 236 pages |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration |
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for FictionCaryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.'Epic and frequently astonishing' The Times'Its resonance continues to deepen' New York Times
Crossing the River features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration
Paperback. £8.99, down from the £9.99 cover price. In Stock.
Crossing the River was written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Crossing the River has 236 pages
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.