The ten days executive [Texte imprimé] : and other stories / Rhoda Bharath.

Bharath, Rhoda, author.

Leeds, England : Peepal Tree Press , 2015.

1 vol. (177 pages ); ; 21 cm

Rhoda Bharath's stories bring a very contemporary Trinidad of the internet and social media into an urgent but complex focus. Told through a distinctive range of individual voices, they visit the domestic and public spaces of a country moving too fast between the knowing innocence of its past and the experience of a globalized present where the the words "shipping and transportation" have quite a different meaning in the thesaurus of the street corner. Caught in the antagonisms of race, class, and gender; the violence that comes with the trade in cocaine; and an Anancy politics where government power is the means to personal wealth made secure by favors to one's ethnic supporters, Bharath's characters are often engaged in a struggle to balance a desire for meaning and self-worth with the temptations of survival by any means.

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Roman -- Trinité-et-Tobago

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The ten days executive -- Sempo's wedding -- Before I dead -- Redemption -- The fairest of them all -- Breast pocket -- Sweet hand -- Circles and lines -- Gaps -- The right word -- Action reaction -- Split level -- Calendar of events.