
From the author of Home to Harlem, a novel about dreams, diaspora, and drifting back home Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as "Banjo," passes his days panhandeling and dreaming of starting his own...

Although Claude Mackay is probably best known for the novel Banana Bottom, many rate this European set work as its equal. Centred around a group of beached black American and Caribbean sailors adrift in that fleshpot of commerce and racism, Marseilles, it presents an extraordinarily...




"Banjo" is a vibrant and gritty novel by Claude McKay, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Set in the bustling, cosmopolitan waterfront of Marseille, France, the story follows a diverse group of Black sailors, drifters, and beachcombers from across the globe...

"Banjo" is a vibrant and gritty novel by Claude McKay, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Set in the bustling, cosmopolitan waterfront of Marseille, France, the story follows a diverse group of Black sailors, drifters, and beachcombers from across the globe...

Claude McKay's picaresque of 1920s Marseille, a paean to Black diaspora A Penguin Classic On the shores of the Vieux Port of Marseille, Lincoln Agrippa Daily, better known as "Banjo," panhandles alongside friends and fellow migrants, busking at bars...
Release Date: May 25, 2027