Higher Ground: A Novel in Three Parts

By Caryl Phillips

Book Overview

A searing novel about slavery and its legacy that tells multiple stories, set generations and continents apart but unified by their ambitious exploration of themes of race, power, captivity, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670826200
• ISBN13: 9780670826209
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"

Customer Reviews

Painful but interesting

After reading Caryl Phillip's "The Nature of Blood," a more than competent novel on racism and antisemitism, I bought his "Higher Ground."Although this book does not shed any more light on the dynamic of hate, it is so amazingly real in its portrayl of the day-to-day anguish of hate that it is almost too difficult to read. Divided into three voices (a black slave-trade facilitator, a militant black convict and a Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivor), the stories are harrowing, image-provocking and even if you don't particularly like the characters you understand them from inside. I felt that the author imparted a rare gift in this regard.An important author with something to say and unlike many writing today, a perspective wider than his own personal experience. Highly recommended.