Counting House

By David Dabydeen

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845230159
• ISBN13: 9781845230159
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.1"