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    Namba Roy No Black Sparrows

    • Original Book (200g)£15.00
      Secondhand out of print ex-library paperback copy, library stamp half removed on front page and small tear otherwise good

    'A vivid portrait of Jamaica in the 1930s"

    Excellent social realist novel. Written by Jamaican Namba Roy in the 1950s in Britain. He died in 1961 and this book was published posthunously in 1989. Great, little known book!


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