Natives of My Person

A Novel

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Beschreibung

<b>George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century</b><br><br>Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel.<br><br>As weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest.<br><br>Told through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, <i>Natives of My Person</i> plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, <i>Natives of My Person</i>, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it.<br><br>“George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —<i>The New York Times</i>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780385552202

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

190 x 132 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US