Crossing the River

Caryl Phillips

Original title: Crossing the river

earliest edition we have, 1993 Knopf, 1994 237 pages

From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and...

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Crossing the River paperback · 2001 · Faber & Faber Ltd · 256 pages · 9780571204021
Crossing the river edition · 1995 · Vintage International · 237 pages
Crossing the river edition · 1994 · Knopf Canada · 237 pages
Crossing the river edition · 1994 · Knopf · 237 pages · 9780679405337
Crossing the river edition · 1993 · Bloomsbury · 237 pages

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