Read A Casual Brutality - Books Library

A Casual Brutality

Neil Bissoondath

4.9/5 (26240 ratings)

Description:Nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize, A Casual Brutality is a powerful, dark novel about the failure of a decent man to come to terms with the moral disintegration of the Caribbean island of his birth.Casaquemada is a fragile West Indian republic divided by racial antagonism, lured into a spurious nationalism by impotent rulers, awash in a mindless consumerism fostered by easy money and a lust for an imported version of the good life. Raj Ramsingh is a Toronto doctor who returns to his native island only to leave it again, having paid a tragic price for his unwillingness to recognize the cruel imperatives of the men who will determine Casaquemada's fate.A Casual Brutality takes the reader into a world of terrifying illusion has become destruction; decency had become helplessness; nationhood has become tribalism; and a violent future looks only towards a brutal past. A novel as timely now as when it was first published in 1988.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Casual Brutality. To get started finding A Casual Brutality, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0749390042

Description: Nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize, A Casual Brutality is a powerful, dark novel about the failure of a decent man to come to terms with the moral disintegration of the Caribbean island of his birth.Casaquemada is a fragile West Indian republic divided by racial antagonism, lured into a spurious nationalism by impotent rulers, awash in a mindless consumerism fostered by easy money and a lust for an imported version of the good life. Raj Ramsingh is a Toronto doctor who returns to his native island only to leave it again, having paid a tragic price for his unwillingness to recognize the cruel imperatives of the men who will determine Casaquemada's fate.A Casual Brutality takes the reader into a world of terrifying illusion has become destruction; decency had become helplessness; nationhood has become tribalism; and a violent future looks only towards a brutal past. A novel as timely now as when it was first published in 1988.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Casual Brutality. To get started finding A Casual Brutality, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

A Casual Brutality

A Casual Brutality

More Books

The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath and Rohinton Mistry

The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath and Rohinton Mistry

Selling Illusions: The Cult Of Multiculturalism In Canada

Selling Illusions: The Cult Of Multiculturalism In Canada

Neil Bissoondath (Canadian Author Studies series)

Neil Bissoondath (Canadian Author Studies series)

Neil Bissoondath: Indo-Caribbean-Canadian Diaspora

Neil Bissoondath: Indo-Caribbean-Canadian Diaspora

Digging up Mountains by Neil Bissoondath (2002-09-06)

Digging up Mountains by Neil Bissoondath (2002-09-06)

[(The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath and Rohinton Mistry)] [Author: Martin Genetsch] published on (August, 2009)

[(The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath and Rohinton Mistry)] [Author: Martin Genetsch] published on (August, 2009)

The/L Age of Confession/Âge de la confession (The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture Series)

The/L Age of Confession/Âge de la confession (The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture Series)

Neil Bissoondath : migration et multiculturalisme dans l'oeuvre

Neil Bissoondath : migration et multiculturalisme dans l'oeuvre

'Fazendo o bem ao coração' e 'A alma de todo o grande design'.: Um Mosaico Cultural de Neil Devindra Bissoondath (Portuguese Edition)

'Fazendo o bem ao coração' e 'A alma de todo o grande design'.: Um Mosaico Cultural de Neil Devindra Bissoondath (Portuguese Edition)