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Synopsis
In this novel about a troubled family on the eve of the presidential election in a Caribbean republic, a nine-year-old boy sees ominous visions after being struck on the head by an ax, and an angry mob burns down his family's home.
| Size | | Length: | 206 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...[W]ith his second novel, D'Aguiar has once more put village life in the foreground...."
London Review of Books - Sean O'Brien (06/06/1996)
"...Mr. D'Aguiar's prose is at times witty and rich..."
New York Times Book Review - Christopher Atamian (11/10/1996)
"'Dear Future' is a novel that manages to be part of the relatively new but rigorous (and vigorous) tradition of the Caribbean novel, and yet wonderfully itself....D'Aguiar's novel emerges as not at all the book the reader seemed to be reading, a much angrier and despairing novel than the light hand has let on, warmhearted but disturbing..."
Nation - Gary Amdahl (01/13/1997)
"Dear Future is a novel always on the verge of something magical--an uncertain, fantastical presence which rips lives apart as often as it mends them....The magic is everywhere, but D'Aguiar--whose first novel "The Longest Memory" won the Whitbread First Novel Award--is constrained, as if he is terrified of what the magic would do to his book were he to unleash it completely...the fear is unfounded."
Literary Review - Nick Daniel (03/19/1996)
"[A] poetic and often moving tale of a broken-up Caribbean family....Life, laughter, and sorrow woven into a thing of beauty by a genuinely gifted writer."
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