Bivouac

✍ Scribed by Kwame Dawes

• Book ID: 100079598
• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 160 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1617757101

✦ Synopsis

Kwame Dawes has been named a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipient in poetry

"An examination of grief and politics in a deftly written novel set in 1980s Jamaica...Astonishing prose."
--_Kirkus Reviews_

"With...dreamlike sequences, this is best suited for readers who enjoy character studies as well as lovers of Jamaican fiction."
--_Booklist_

"Bivouac has that kind of rich and luxurious writing that makes you believe there is a purpose to every element of the story."
--**Tonstant Weader Reviews**

"Dawes examines the complicated terrain of grief with uncanny insight and spare, lucid prose. What unfolds is a story about a man, a family, and a country searching for answers and new hope."
--Maaza Mengiste , author of Beneath the Lion's Gaze

"Bivouac speaks in tongues so that the reader hears both the market and the courtroom, the orchestra of ancestral voices and the tone...