My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales

by Robert Antoni

Book Overview

Robert Antoni took the literary world by storm with his first novel, Divina Trace, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and is widely recognized as a landmark in Caribbean literature. His second novel, Blessed Is the Fruit, received extraordinary literary praise and was hailed by Robert Olen Butler as an enduring work of art. My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales is a seductive collection of folktales retold by an exotic grandmother to her innocent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802139000
• ISBN13: 9780802139009
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

sexy folktales of the Carribean with plenty of farce thrown in

This book was excellent. It was a blend of local folktales unique to the Carribean and erotica--and with humor and farce as well. The tales are risque and not for the easily offended but this is not pornographic or hard edged nor is there profanity. Tales include a long folktale about an erotic witch who emasculates her lovers, the Cinderella/SM tinged story of an Carribe Indian princess and her pet Iguana, and the Grandmother of the title and her adventures running a rooming house for US soldiers during WWII and her battles with a fake Colonel Sanders and a self-styled crime king. Oh, and the grandmother invents Calypso radio as well! This is a great and unusal book.

Don't be fooled by the title! This is sensual NOT raunchy!

Don't be fooled by the title. It's not raunchy. It's sensual. Two different things. This is a brilliant mix of storytelling, colors, smells, palm trees and imagination! The grandmother narrator...she's just wild! I loved her character. She wasn't some little polite old lady. She's loud, in your face, very sexually in tuned, funny, honest (sometimes), and witty. This is a really cool book and I'm glad I had the privilege to read this wonderful book.