This book is wicked!

    Described as 'a landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel' by C.L.R. James, Earl Lovelace's Caribbean classic tells the story of Calvary Hill - poverty stricken, pot-holed and garbage-strewn - where the slum shacks 'leap out of the red dirt and stone, thin like smoke, fragile like kite paper, balancing on their rickety pillars as broomsticks on the edge of a juggler's nose'. The Dragon Can't Dance is a remarkable canvas of shanty-town life in which Lovelace's intimate knowledge of rural Trinidad and the Carnival as a sustaining cultural tradition are brilliantly brought to life.

    Other Releases on Faber and Faber

    The Dead YardA Story Of Modern JamaicaFaber and Faber
    Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean....
      • Original Book (500g)£15.00
        Pre-Owned USA paperback
        In stockAdd to Bag
      • Book (300g) 9780571227624£10.99
        In stockAdd to Bag
      Stockhausen: Life and Workby Karl H. WornerFaber And Faber
        • Original Book (500g)£20.00
          Secondhand out of print paperback in good condition
          In stockAdd to Bag
        England's DreamingSex Pistols And Punk Rock by Jon SavageFaber And Faber
        Seminal text on the rise of punk and the Sex Pistols. Essential music history!
          • Book (700g) 9780571368549£12.99
            In stockAdd to Bag
          • Book (750g) 0571326285£15.00
            Early Secondhand paperback in good cond (difft cover with die cut in middle)
          With The Contras A Reporter In The Wilds Of NicaraguaFaber and Faber
          Published in 1985, this was the first book about the Nicaragua-Contra war to reach a wide readership. S/hand hardback book

            People also bought

            Lord InvaderCalypso (1955)Smithsonian Folkways
            One of Calypso's finest exponents, recorded in 1955
            • – Brown Skin Girl
            Bourbon Street Black (1973)The New Orleans Black JazzmanOxford University Press (1973)
            Description: "New Orleans, "Mecca" of the Jazz world, has always pulsated with musical life. At the heart of this life is Bourbon Street Black - a nearly...
              • Original Book (400g)£20.00
                Secondhand ex-library hardback book w/stamps, small tear on side d/jacket
                In stockAdd to Bag
              Inside BabylonThe Caribbean Diaspora in BritainBy Winston James and Clive Harris (1993)
              This collection aims to reflect the varied experience of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain. The contributors set out to show how employers and police,...