Yesterdays / Harold Sonny Ladoo ; foreword by Kevin Jared Hosein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ladoo, Harold Sonny, 1945- author.

Contributor:

Hosein, Kevin Jared, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization--Fiction.

Colonization.

Emigration and immigration--Fiction.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

109 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2024]

Summary:

"A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head. Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man's attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to convert the heathen Christians of Canada. Yet this conceit quickly derails into a ribald, outrageous portrait of West Indian village life, and a prescient, proto-parody of what would become the archetypal 'immigrant story.' Sacred cows both figurative and literal are skewered in a series of hilarious and increasingly bawdy encounters between villagers who gossip, cheat, and steal, but also form a balanced, if chaotic, collectivity. Yesterdays is one of the great lost English-language novels of the previous century--perhaps ahead of its own time upon its initial release, but sure to appeal to 21st-century audiences who will appreciate its startling prescience, linguistic inventiveness, as well as its bold singularity amid a canon glutted with paint-by-numbers respectability."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Previously published: Toronto: Anansi, 1974.

Other Format:

Online version: Ladoo, Harold Sonny, 1945- Yesterdays.

ISBN:

9781552454787

1552454789

OCLC:

1395539506