Una novela «que deja huellas imborrables en quien la lee» (Babelia) y obtuvo el Premio Anisfield-Wolf, por la candidata al Nobel y ganadora de los premios Femina Étranger, American Book Award, Dan David...

Una de las novelas de iniciación más celebradas de todos los tiempos, premiada con la Center for Fiction's Clifton Fadiman Medal, que consagró a la candidata al Nobel Jamaica Kincaid.«Una de las pocas...

LA ÚLTIMA Y GALARDONADA NOVELA DE LA CANDIDATA AL PREMIO NOBEL JAMAICA KINCAID PremioFemina Étranger * American Book Award * Dan David Prize * The Paris Review Hadada Award«Una de las pocas escritoras...

Un memoir «visceral y desgarrador [...], embriagador y redentor» (The Boston Sunday Globe), que obtuvo el Premio Femina Étranger, por la candidata al Nobel y ganadora del American Book Award, el Dan David...

La Lucy, una adolescent caribenya, arriba als Estats Units per treballar d'au-pair a casa d'una família de classe mitjana. Tot és nou per a ella: el clima, les relacions humanes, l'entorn. En Lewis, la...

La vida de la Xuela, de mare caribenya i pare escocès, està marcada per la mort de la mare en el moment del part i el posterior abandonament per part del pare, que la deixa a càrrec d'una dona que gestiona...

A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.An adored only child growing up...

In this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at...

At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.Collecting pieces written for...

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple – handsome,...

Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother.Xuela’s vivid, visceral recollections of the...

Uma história de amor, medo, perda e formação de caráter, um relato da evolução de uma mulher negra caribenha escrito por uma das autoras mais habilidosas da literatura contemporânea. Poderoso, perturbador...

'If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see…' So begins Jamaica Kincaid's powerful portrait of the damaged paradise that was her childhood home. The island of Antigua is a magical place...

Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Jacqueline Huet et Jean-Pierre Carasso. " Voyons voir où en étaient alors Mrs. Sweet et Mr. Sweet : la voix de son épouse irritait Mr. Sweet, surtout sa sonorité;...

A obra-prima de uma das mais aclamadas escritoras norte-americanas das últimas décadas, até agora inédita em Portugal.Autora vencedora dos prémios:Guggenheim Award for Fiction | Prix Femina EtrangerRoyal...

Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Dominique Letellier. " Ma mère est morte au moment où je suis née, aussi toute ma vie n'y a-t-il jamais rien eu entre moi et l'éternité ; dans mon dos soufflait...

‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago TribuneTalk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s original writing for the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column from 1974...

‘If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center’ - New York TimesMr and Mrs Sweet live in a house in the small town...

‘Poetic and affecting’ - Robert Antoni, The Washington PostMr Potter, a taxi driver from Antigua, makes his living along the winding roads that pass through the only towns he has ever known. He sleeps,...

‘Controlled and fearless perfection’ - The Washington PostJamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brother’s...

‘[Kincaid] is able to do something that is almost never done in garden writing, and do it very well . . .’ - The New York TimesJamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her...

APAÑADO é uma coletânea de contos de autoras latino-americanas e caribenhas contemporâneas. Os 14 textos são de: Alejandra Zina (Argentina), Carla Piazzi (Brasil), Claudia Hernández (El Salvador), Claudia...