Lawrence Hill, Author . Norton $24.95 (486p) ISBN 978-0-393-06578-7
Stunning, wrenching and inspiring, the fourth novel by Canadian novelist Hill (Any Known Blood
) spans the life of Aminata Diallo, born in Bayo, West Africa, in 1745. The novel opens in 1802, as Aminata is wooed in London to the cause of British...
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Lawrence Hill, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (528p) ISBN 978-0-688-16208-5
The son of a black man and a white woman, the down-and-out narrator of Hill's substantial, historically inflected novel, struggles to determine his identity in racially polarized Canada and within his own well-educated, upwardly mobile family. At 39,
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Lawrence Hill. House of Anansi Press (HarperCollins Canada; Canadian dist.; PGW; U.S. dist.), $15.95 trade paper (372p) ISBN 978-1-77089-323-8
Anansi presents this year's CBC Massey Lectures, written and delivered by noted author Lawrence Hill. Hill, who is perhaps best known for his bestselling The Book of Negroes (published as Someone Knows My Name in the U.S.), expounds on the subject...
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Lawrence Hill. Norton, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-07059-0
This taut political thriller from Hill (The Book of Negroes) focuses on undocumented immigrants, and how they struggle to survive in hostile nations. Keita Ali lives in the fictional island continent of Zantorland, located between Africa and...
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