The Commonwealth Prize-winning author of Divina Trace "has boldly recast Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as a harrowing tale" set in the West Indies ( Booklist, starred review).Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Americas. His novel Carnival—"easily his most engrossing, direct work to date"—takes readers on a journey from contemporary New York City to the ...

Spanning from Victorian England to the West Indies, this is a prize-winning novel of adventure, love, comedy, and tragedy.In 1845 London, engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society, and recruits a variety of London citizens to take his machines and his misguided ideas to f...

A groundbreaking novel in Caribbean literature and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel from the acclaimed Trinidadian writer.A mysterious child, half-human, half-frog, is born on the island of Corpus Christi in the West Indies. Its mother becomes Magdalena Divina, patron saint of the island, worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Caste Indians, Africans, Catholics, and indigenous Indians alike. The frogchild, allegedly drowned in a pot of callalo...

Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. As reflected herein, the Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of noir fiction.Features brand...

"To travel through the 19 works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTwo of Trinidad's top writers masterfully curate this literary retrospective of the nation's best writing over the past century from authors who were largely part of the literary wave that swept in with Trinidadian Independence in 1962. Though Trinidad N...

Antoni's work reflects on the nature of human consciousness and its relationship to language, culture and storytelling itself.

"To travel through the nineteen works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens. The writings are grouped into four historically significant periods ('Leaving Colonialism,' 'Facing Independence,' 'Looking In,' and 'Losing Control'). It's an effective construct; the reader experiences island culture and history as a part of its time, formed by a pastiche of nationality, culture, and social class. Standouts abound."

En el año 1520 apareció, en la ciudad de Barcelona, el Llibre del coc, el primer libro de cocina impreso en la península ibérica. Estaba escrito en catalán. Hasta entonces, los recetarios de cocina habían circulado únicamente en forma manuscrita. La obra se atribuye al maestro Robert, cocinero del rey Fernando de Nápoles. Todo parece indicar que este soberano debe identificarse con Fernando I, hijo natural de Alfonso el Magnánimo, que reinó en Nápoles entre los años 1458 y 1494. El libro i...

Los cardenales encerrados en la Capilla Sixtina eligieron a un papa que no aparecía en las quinielas. El mundo quedó expectante para escuchar sus primeras palabras, las del primer papa norteamericano de la historia. Los vaticanistas explicaban que había dedicado la mayor parte de su vida al apostolado en Perú y que había sido promocionado en Roma por su antecesor Francisco. ¿Seguiría la estela de renovación de su antecesor? ¿O volvería a un ideario más conservador? El atuendo que escogió p...

L'any 1520 va aparèixer, a la ciutat de Barcelona, el Llibre del coc, el primer llibre de cuina imprès a la península Ibèrica. Era escrit en català. Fins llavors els receptaris de cuina havien circulat únicament de forma manuscrita. L'obra s'atribueix a mestre Robert, cuiner del rei Ferran de Nàpols. Tot sembla indicar que cal identificar aquest sobirà amb Ferran I, fill natural d'Alfons el Magnànim, que va regnar a Nàpols entre els anys 1458 i 1494. El llibre inclou més de dues-centes rec...

History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness as revealed in people’s everyday lives and as expressed through customary rituals, so...

The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists that examines the major changes that took place across the decade and their role in determining the course of the Revolution. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of th...