![]() The beguiling simplicity of the narrative and prose yields to the profound realisation that for the people of Augustown, the only way to 'fly away to Zion' is through death and some indeed are prepared, are 'ready fi dead. ![]() But his is a slippery tale, an old-time story. Miller shows how the dominance of its brutal history lies just beneath the surface of everyday life it runs through the island and Augustown like water. When he first saw the Augustown manuscript, McDonald, who was born in Costa Rica and raised in Brooklyn, was reminded of his own immigrant upbringing, particularly the central role that my. It is this tension that drives the story towards an unbearably dramatic denouement. ![]() although the narrator challenges any conclusion the reader may draw that the book is a version of magical realism, Augustown gives more than a nod to Gabriel García Márquez as a chronicle of a death foretold. An admired poet, Miller, like his compatriot the Man Booker prize-winning Marlon James, has mined a rich seam of Jamaican history. ![]() The story of Bedward at the centre of Augustown, a partially fictionalised version of August Town, is given a much more richly nuanced and empathetic telling in Kei Miller’s vivid modern fable. ![]()
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