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Crossbones and Other Stories
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Willi Chen
Paperback 176pp
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ISBN: 978-1-906190-26-2
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This collection of short stories, from Trinidad’s versatile and ebullient Willi Chen, features the wide variety of ordinary folk of the island. There are farmers, shopkeepers, thieves, drug-dealers, migrants from other islands and far-off places, people on the move, and people looking for a place and a life. It is a stark and elemental world: brute force versus human enterprise; cruelty pausing before sheer beauty; jumbie birds, snakes, howler monkeys and thunderous storms.
Chen’s stories are filled with surprise, tension, fear, farce and comedy and come from the circumstance that his characters - of whatever station or ethnic origin - are all in a state of being or becoming Trinidadian.
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