Annal:1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
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Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1993 JT Black-Fiction winner
- 1993 Booker shortlist
- Score: 16.43
From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.
Phillips’s characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking…
