A story of hope and perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable injustice, Shenaz Patel draws on the lives of expelled Chagossians in this timely examination of political oppression.Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze “back there”—to Diego Garcia, one of the small islands forming the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. With no explanation, no warning, and only an hour to ...

Based on the true, still-unfolding story of the expelled Chagossians’ fight for their homeland, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and above all the neverending desire for justice.Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze “back there”—to Diego Garcia, one of the small islands forming the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean....

La peor consecuencia del exilio es acaso la condena a vivir en el pasado. A añorar personas y circunstancias que ya no son como eran. A pensar incesantemente en un regreso que el paso del tiempo va volviendo impracticable. En esta novela a la vez vigorosa y sutil, Shenaz Patel presenta con empatía la condición de los desterrados de las islas Chagos, en el océano Índico, a través de la mirada de tres personajes memorables: Charlesia, la rebelde que se niega a aceptar que el exilio es defini...

A rediscovered classic, and the only known novel by Black abolitionist and political exile Louis Timagène Houat, The Maroons is a fervid account of slavery and escape on nineteenth-century Réunion Island.Frême is a young African man forced into slavery on Réunion, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Plagued by memories of his childhood sweetheart, a white woman named Marie, Frême seeks her out—but when they are persecuted for their love, the ...