The Repenters
Will be published approx. on 25. July 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-84523-331-0 (ISBN)
Description
Longlisted:
>When the infant Jordan Sant is taken to the St Asteria Home for Children after the murder of his parents, he sets out on a journey that is a constant struggle between his best and worst selves. One relationship, with the young nun the children call Mouse, awakens the possibilities of love and hope, but when Mouse abandons her calling and leaves the home, the world thereafter becomes a darker place. When, barely a teenager, he runs away from the home to scuffle for a living in the frightening underbelly of Port of Spain, Jordan reaches the lower depths of both Trinidadian society and himself.
>When the infant Jordan Sant is taken to the St Asteria Home for Children after the murder of his parents, he sets out on a journey that is a constant struggle between his best and worst selves. One relationship, with the young nun the children call Mouse, awakens the possibilities of love and hope, but when Mouse abandons her calling and leaves the home, the world thereafter becomes a darker place. When, barely a teenager, he runs away from the home to scuffle for a living in the frightening underbelly of Port of Spain, Jordan reaches the lower depths of both Trinidadian society and himself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
211 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84523-331-0 (9781845233310)
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Kevin Jared Hosein currently resides in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the 2015 Caribbean regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his entry, "The King of Settlement 4". In 2013, he wrote and illustrated his first book, Littletown Secrets, which was named the best children's book of 2013 by the Trinidad Guardian. His poem, "The Wait is So, So Long" was adapted into a short film which was awarded a Gold Key at the New York-based Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.