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DEBUT Set in 1940s Trinidad, as British and U.S. imperial power start their downslide, this novel from Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner Hosein (his first to be published in the U.S., after several published in the Caribbean, including International Dublin Literary Award long-listed The Repenters) is both a family drama and an acute study of social structure. Wealthy landowner Dalton Changoor has disappeared, and his wife Marlee flirtatiously asks one of the workers, H...Log In or Sign Up to Read More