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Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and Caryl Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Best of Young British Writers 1993. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.
The Atlantic Slave Trade displaced an estimated 12 million Africans between the 16th and mid-19th centuries. The descendants of those enslaved Africans are now an integral part of Western Culture, but they remain a people for whom notions of exile and loss, identity and belonging, bear repeated reflection. Phillips's latest work explores the theme of 'home' through the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade. Consisting of five essays, it combines travelogue and individual histories to poignant effect. Phillips takes us on a personal odyssey from the Caribbean to Britain, then to three cities, Liverpool, England, and Elmina on the coast of Ghana, and Charleston in the American south. Finally we go to the Hegev desert in Israel where 2000 African-Americans have settled in search of a new home. Written in Phillips's clear, unpretensious style The Atlantic Sound is a thoughtful collection of essays centred on a theme that is not only of importance to the descendants of modernity's earliest conscripts, but also anyone suffering from the uncertainty induced by the post-modern condition. Review by FERDINAND DENIS Editor's note: Ferdinand Denis is the co-editor of Voices of the Crossing: The Impact of Living in Britain on Writers from the Caribbean, India and Africa. (Kirkus UK)
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