The Crucifixion (Caribbean Classics) - Softcover

"Students of Caribbean literature will certainly be delighted that after such a long hiatus another novel by this talented Trinidadian novelist is in print." --Daryl C Dance, "Review of West Indian Literature"

""The Crucifixion" is a tightly-written, convincing work in the 'barrack-yard' tradition, full of the lives and blighted hopes of those at the bottom of the heap who are searching for their own, individual escape routes to tunnel through to the light." --Chris Searle, "West Indian Digest"

Told in two voices, one standard English, the other Creole, this novel is an ironic fable of a tragi-comic self-deception. It portrays the tensions between authority, freedom, law, and love in Trinidadian society through the character Manko and the stories of the other local yard dwellers. These range from memories of Trinidad's popular uprisings to a prostitute's narrative of what has led to her occupation. In exploring the popular folk archetype of the self-crucified preacher, the novel takes the balladic form of the calypso to greater depths.