North of the Equator
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2001
- Category
- Literary, General, Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554885848
- Publish Date
- Oct 2001
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888784230
- Publish Date
- Oct 2001
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
Cyril Dabydeen’s new collection of stories, North of the Equator, looks at the polarities of tropical and temperate places. Acclaimed novelist Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners) says, "Dabydeen is in the vanguard of contemporary short-story writers, shuttling with equal and consummate skill from rural Guyana to metropolitan Canada." Dabydeen’s characters occupy the spaces in between. They live in limbo, stretched between two worlds: one, an adopted home in Canada; the other, a birthplace in the islands scattered across the equator.
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.