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Bob Marley, My Son
The mother of the reggae pioneer tells the story of her son in a poignant memoir of life with this icon of world music, detailing her son's involvement with Rastafarianism, the …
AWC: Dog War HB
In a new and highly original take on Jamaican life, Winkler, the Caribbean's unrivalled master of adult comedy, introduces the estimable Precious, a large-bottomed, meltingly juicy …
Anthony Winkler Collection: Going Home to Teach
This autobiographical account of the year Winkler spent at a rural teacher training college flashes back to the Jamaica of the narrator's childhood, recounting incidents and …
Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories
"e;Winkler's prose continues to exhibit his trademark grace and tact, yet it zeroes in on the intricacies of relationships and interactions among persons from different places …
The Painted Canoe
You learn dat dis world don't love negar And negar don't make for dis world Zachariah's mother warned him when he was still a boy. Yet, poor and abominably ugly, the Jamaican …
Anthony Winkler Collection: Crocodile
"Crocodile" tells the story of Josephine Hemp, a simple but devout Catholic housemaid who feels abused and abandoned by God. To get revenge, she captures a consecrated host which, …
Trust the Darkness
How could I change an outcome that was set in concrete?... This meant plunging into the darkness..."e; Jamaican writer Anthony C. Winkler has been called "e;the unrivalled …
Anthony Winkler Collection: The Painted Canoe
"The Painted Canoe" is the story of a poor, ugly Jamaican fisherman who falls asleep one night on a fishing trip and wakes up to find his small craft surrounded by the empty …
God Carlos
"Set in the sixteenth century, Winkler's latest novel is something like "Heart of Darkness" meets "Animal Farm." But what happens when Jamaica's most flamboyantly irreverent and …
God Carlos
This tragicomic novel set in sixteenth-century Jamaica is a ';gusty, boisterous, [and] entertaining... slice of historical fiction' (Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered). …
Anthony Winkler Collection: The Duppy
Baps, a Jamaican shopkeeper, drops dead unexpectedly one Saturday morning and finds himself being transported to heaven via a crowded minibus. To enter heaven, he discovers that he …
Family Mansion
A darkly comic novel of an Englishman in nineteenth-century Jamaica: ';A powerful and deeply moving tour de force' (Library Journal). The Family Mansion tells the story of Hartley …