The Final Passage
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the twilight of Caribbean island life and the grey promise of postwar Britain, The Final Passage chronicles the desperate journey of Leila, a young West Indian woman who abandons her troubled home — and a faithless husband — for the cold, unwelcoming shores of England in the 1950s. Winner of the Malcolm X Award, this debut novel captures the raw hope and quiet devastation of the Windrush generation with unflinching emotional precision, immersing the reader in the universal search for belonging, identity, and a better life. Caryl Phillips writes with spare, lyrical authority, peeling back the layers of colonial illusion to reveal the painful reality of displacement and cultural alienation that awaited so many Caribbean migrants. The novel stands as a landmark work in Black British literature, illustrating the human cost of empire through the most intimate of lenses — a woman's fractured heart and unbroken will. For those who have never questioned where they belong, The Final Passage will make that question impossible to ignore.
Author: Caryl Phillips
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the twilight of Caribbean island life and the grey promise of postwar Britain, The Final Passage chronicles the desperate journey of Leila, a young West Indian woman who abandons her troubled home — and a faithless husband — for the cold, unwelcoming shores of England in the 1950s. Winner of the Malcolm X Award, this debut novel captures the raw hope and quiet devastation of the Windrush generation with unflinching emotional precision, immersing the reader in the universal search for belonging, identity, and a better life. Caryl Phillips writes with spare, lyrical authority, peeling back the layers of colonial illusion to reveal the painful reality of displacement and cultural alienation that awaited so many Caribbean migrants. The novel stands as a landmark work in Black British literature, illustrating the human cost of empire through the most intimate of lenses — a woman's fractured heart and unbroken will. For those who have never questioned where they belong, The Final Passage will make that question impossible to ignore.