Fiction - World Literature - Caribbean & West Indies

Starring an unforgettably fierce ninety-nine-year-old Jamaican heroine, this "profound and beautiful novel" transports readers to the heart of rural Jamaica with a tender and urgent story about who owns the land on which our identities are forged (Julia Alvarez). When the stones of her...

Desde la invasión norteamericana hasta los albores de una nueva identidad política, una saga familiar de tradición y cambio, en donde lo único que perdura es el amor.El año 1898 despunta con una España en el ocaso de su imperio. En Puerto Rico, la...

A Haitian American woman survives a brutal kidnapping in this "commanding debut novel" from the New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist (The New Yorker).Author and essayist Roxane Gay is celebrated for her incisive commentary on identity and culture, as well as for her...

The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her "prophetic power"...

Caryl Phillips, who "pits himself against any kind of received wisdom" (London Review of Books), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London. At the height of the Swinging Sixties, Victor Johnson, a young immigrant from...

Kincaid's first book, which announced the arrival of a singular talent, "will burn on your shelf" (Derek Walcott). Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge gently into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively...

Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River ... inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its...

"From the lush setting to the evocative prose to the can't-look-away characters, this is one of my most anticipated novels of the year." --NPR"Come for the fantasy; stay for the vengeance, and enjoy the beauty of both." --Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author...

The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau A Penguin Classic Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semiautobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the...

"The best book on Haiti in a very long time . . . powerful, spot on, likely the best written." --Dany Laferrière An astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti Cécé La Flamme, as she's known...

A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generations Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the cerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies....

En 1976 apareció La guaracha del Macho Camacho, que consagró a Luis Rafael Sánchez como una de las figuras clave en las letras latinoamericanas. Para entender un texto tan innovador el lector tiene que volver a los cuentos de En cuerpo de camisa (1966)...

En Desfila La Habana, Antonio José Ponte mezcla ficción y realidad en una novela inclasificable que convoca a una galería de personalidades alucinantes, reunidas en la antesala de un momento que trastocó las piezas del tablero mundial durante la Guerra Fría. 1958-1959. Nadie sabe...

An intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience and self-discovery are passed down through several generations of an Indo-Trinidadian family, Ever Since We Small is a sweeping epic that takes us from the days of the British Raj in India to multicultural modern...

** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE ** A bold, witty, magical new voice in fiction, Justin Haynes weaves a cross-generational Caribbean story of migration, superstition, and a search for family in the novel Ibis. "This brilliant, shape-shifting novel teems...

En el 50 aniversario de su publicación, una de las novelas fundacionales de la narrativa latinoamericana, así como un hito en la afirmación de la identidad nacional y la expresión de la ambigüedad colonial de Puerto Rico que elevó el habla coloquial y la...

Una poderosa saga familiar sobre la memoria, la pertenencia y el legado de una mujer destinada a reclamar aquello que el mar le arrebató.La apasionante historia de una gran mujer destinada a reclamar lo que el mar le arrebató.Un siglo después del naufragio del...

A portrait of an indelible young woman, Kincaid's second novel is "vivid, true and necessary" (Los Angeles Times).Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, which has sold over 250,000 copies in Grove's editions, a groundbreaking, hilarious novel set in London following two older gay Caribbean men reckoning with being closeted in a rapidly changing world"Bernardine Evaristo can take any...

In Montego Bay, Jamaica, teenager Nyjah Messado witnesses a brutal assault by some of the boys in his circle of friends. Torn between the masculine code at his private all boys' school and his own conscience, Nyjah fails to intervene, and comes of age...