God Carlos

✍ Scribed by Anthony C. Winkler

• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Year: 2012;2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

God Carlos has been long-listed for the OMC Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Trinidad.
"A gusty, boisterous, and entertaining slice of historical fiction. In scenes of a mixture of pride, madness, and comedy, Carlos plays out his role as deity among the naked islanders, living a fantasy that most readers will find believable, if horrific. Along with the horror, the book does offer some beautiful moments of discovery, as when, as Winkler narrates, the ship takes the Mona Passage to Jamaica . . . we hear of an Edenic island, green and aromatic, opened like a wildflower. For all of its scenes of braggadocio and brutality, the book often works on you like that vision."
—Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered
"Readers are transported to Jamaica, into Winkler's richly invented 16th century, where his flawless prose paints their slice of time, in turn both brutally graphic and lyrically gorgeous. Comic, tragic, bawdy, sad, and provocative,...