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The Counting House

David Dabydeen

出版	Peepal Tree, 2005
主題	Fiction / Historical / GeneralHistory / Asia / South / GeneralPoetry / General
ISBN	18452301599781845230159
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bLYLAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Issues of caste, slavery, racism, and the immigrant experience in the early 19th century are addressed in this novel. Rohini and Vidia, a young married couple struggling for survival in a small, caste-ridden Indian village are seduced by a recruiter's persuasive talk of easy work and plentiful land. They sign up as indentured laborers to go to British Guiana and discover their harsh fate as "bound coolies" in a country only just emerging from the savage brutalities of slavery. In their problematic encounters with the Afro-Guyanese, hostile to immigrant labor, they confront the truths of their uprooted condition and learn to live with their fate.