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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

My Brahmin Days

and other stories

by (author) Cyril Dabydeen

Publisher
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jan 2000
Category
Short Stories (single author), Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920661857
    Publish Date
    Jan 2000
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

These closely observed stories, with their gritty poetic descriptions and finely ironic twists, confront Dabydeen's Asian and Caribbean-South American identity with his experience of life in Canada, where he has lived for over three decades.

About the author

Cyril Dabydeen has published more than a dozen books of prose and poetry in the United Kingdom and Canada, including the novel Dark Swirl and the story collections My Brahmin Days, Black Jesus and Other Stories, and Jogging in Havana. The City of Ottawa appointed him Poet Laureate in the mid-1980s and granted him the first Award of Excellence for Writing and Publishing. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

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