The Brown Curtains

By Clive Sankardayal

Book Overview

What happens in The Brown Curtains when a group of Guyanese professionals migrate to St. Lucia to take advantage of better pay, presents a lesson in racial, cultural, and religious tolerance that has important implications for the CSME and Caribbean integration. As one of the few West Indian novels to explore intra-Caribbean migration and cultural differences among CARICOM countries, The Brown Curtains is indeed a path-making work of art.

A novel of great humor, and philosophical and political insight.
-Allan Weekes, Author of Talk of the Devil

The Brown Curtains embroils readers in a steaming love story involving Raj, an Indo-Guyanese emigrant to St. Lucia, and Felicity, a St. Lucian black beauty. The only question is whether their love can withstand the racial and religious bigotry of Raj's parents.
-Anderson Reynolds, Author of Death by Fire

A powerful commentary on race, culture, and religion, and the uncompromising influence of love... an insightful, persuasive, and entertaining work of art ... Sankardayal has succeeded in producing a work of genius.
-Modeste Downes, Author of Phases

Whether you are Black, Indian, Christian, Hindu or Moslem, The Brown Curtains gently goads you in the direction of forgotten trails and alleys of the diaspora. It is a novel for everyone because it shows that adapting to a new life is the same wherever you arrive.
-Michael Aubertin, Author of Neg Maron: Freedom Fighters

A remarkable piece of literature...a brilliant piece of prose writing...(delves into) the more sophisticated and complex issues of race relations, cultural tolerance...issues of sociology and culture are related in lavish humor and hilarity.
-The Guyana Chronicle

The Brown Curtains deals with intra-Caribbean migration...issues of race, politics, and East Indian pathos...and stands alone in the way it has brought all those themes together in one drama.
-Stabroek News

The Brown Curtains is an entertaining novel well worth reading...There is some comic relief, reminiscent of Shakespeare...Mr. Sankardayal joins that growing body of West Indian writers who have been making a most valuable contribution to world culture and to an understanding of the region and its peoples."
-Jacques Compton, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Chavalier De L'Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettre

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970443250
• ISBN13: 9780970443250
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Jako Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"