My Multi-Ethnic Friends & Other Stories
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2013
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550717051
- Publish Date
- Dec 2013
- List Price
- $20.00
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Description
From the jungles of Guyana to the urban jungle of Ottawa, Cyril Dabydeen's My Multi-Ethnic Friends & Other Stories highlights the struggles of immigrant life in a society that talks multiculturalism but doesn't always walk it. The characters straddle many worlds and tend to feel comfortable in none “all overlaid with a healthy dose of humour, satire and subtle insights.
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.
Editorial Reviews
Cyril Dabydeen is in the vanguard of contemporary short story writers, shuttling with equal and consummate skill from rural Guyana to metropolitan Canada. “Sam Selvon (Caribbean-Canadian novelist).