1526602873 
Hardback I've been meaning to tell you : a letter to my daughter / David Chariandy.
Publication year: 2019
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781526602879 (hbk.) :
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The Canadian author of }Brother{ provides a meditation on the politics of race today, in the form of a letter to her his 3-year-old daughter. The son of black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, Chariandy draws upon his own past and experiences, as well as the legacies of slavery, indenture and immigration. 'There is, as you pick it up, nothing to prepare you for its power' OBSERVER 'Quite simply, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read' AMINATTA FORNA How do we navigate our complex histories for our children? What is our duty to share and what must we leave for them to discover? Writing to his daughter, David Chariandy asks difficult, unsettling, perhaps impossible questions - questions made all the more poignant by our current political landscape. With tender, spare and luminous prose, Chariandy looks both into his heart and mind and out to the world and humanity. In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, this is a book about race; this is a b
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91 pages ; 21 cm
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