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A groundbreaking novel in Caribbean literature and winner of the Commonwealth Writersâ Prize for Best First Novel from the acclaimed Trinidadian writer.  A mysterious child, half-human, half-frog, is born on the island of Corpus Christi in the West Indies. Its mother becomes Magdalena Divina, patron saint of the island, worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Caste Indians, Africans, Catholics, and indigenous Indians alike. The frogchild, allegedly drowned in a pot of callaloo by the wife of the man who sired it, becomes the focus of an evolving legend as Johnny Domingo hears this story about his family from different people and tries, impossibly, to piece it together into one coherent and true account.  âThis is magical realism with an avant-garde twist, as if Garcia M[á]rquez and Joyce had themselves engaged in unholy cohabitation.â âThe Washington Post Book World  Praise for Robert Antoni âRobert Antoni is a treasure of our literary culture.â âRobert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author  âRobert Antoni doesnât make giant steps. He makes quantumâand sometimes hilariousâleaps past whatever we called metafiction to the same territory as Richard Powers and David Foster Wallace. But like those men and unlike nearly everybody else, he never forgets that at the core of it all youâve still got to tell a rip-roaring story.â âMarlon James, New York Timesâbestselling author |
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