Gloria av Kerry Young

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<b>_______________</b><b>''Kerry Young is a standalone talent in the new emerging generation of writers from the Caribbean region. Read her if you want to know about the Caribbean'' </b>- Monique Roffey, winner of the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature<b>''A vivid portrayal ... Kerry Young''s heartfelt, sparky and affecting debut novel is a chronicle of multicultural Jamaica, both in its cultural richness and in its strife and tensions'' </b><i>- Guardian</i><b>''A pacy but absorbing saga of domestic struggle and gangland manoeuvring set against the violent backdrop of postwar Jamaican politics'' </b><i>- Independent on Sunday</i><b>_______________</b><b>From the author of the Costa and Commonwealth Prize-shortlisted Pao</b>Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Gloria¿s desper