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A Black Englishman: Carolyn Slaughter

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Synopsis:

India, 1920: exotic, glamorous and wrenching away from Britain’s colonial grip, only to be thrown into religious violence and terrorism. Isabel, a young woman in search of herself and in flight from the ravages of the Great War, has married a career solider whose brutality and cruelty sicken her. Upon arrival in India she is thrust headlong into a passionate and dangerous liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor who insists, against all the odds, on the right to be both black and British. Their devotion to each other takes them across the length and breadth of India and to the brink of disaster.

A powerful and erotic love affair that combines the themes of colonial exploitation, political and ethnic tensions, race and sexuality, A Black Englishman is an epic and intimate novel about love and loyalty, revenge and faith, race and identity, and what it takes to be human.

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Categorised as:

Fiction

Sub-categories:

General Fiction

Places:

India

Genres & Themes:

Colonialism; Infidelity; Revenge; Violence

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