A Memory of Flowers and Coconut - Deonandan, Raywat
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From the pen of a multiple award-winning author comes this collection of stories about love, loss, religion, murder, memory, and mystery. * In "Midnight Shift", a pair of doctors seeking intimacy instead discover a dying patient eager to divulge an ancient crime. * In "A Memory of Flowers and Coconut", we are cast back to 1940s South America to witness an unfolding rural tragedy. * In "New", the mystery of a sick child reveals the fabric of Creation itself. * In "The Emerald in the Diamond", a robbery in the Mongolian desert somehow makes its way to a baseball stadium in Missouri. >Raywat…mehr

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From the pen of a multiple award-winning author comes this collection of stories about love, loss, religion, murder, memory, and mystery. * In "Midnight Shift", a pair of doctors seeking intimacy instead discover a dying patient eager to divulge an ancient crime. * In "A Memory of Flowers and Coconut", we are cast back to 1940s South America to witness an unfolding rural tragedy. * In "New", the mystery of a sick child reveals the fabric of Creation itself. * In "The Emerald in the Diamond", a robbery in the Mongolian desert somehow makes its way to a baseball stadium in Missouri. >Raywat Deonandan' first collection of short stories, Sweet Like Saltwater , won the Guyana Prize for Literature (the national book award of Guyana) in the Best First Work category. Here are some samples of reviews of his fiction * "The imagery is often quite wonderful, capturing sights, sounds, smell, touch, very well." -Linda Field, Arsenal Pulp Press * "Through... brilliant characterization and dialogue, the reader is engaged in continuous storying." -Anne Forsythe-Moore, Canadian Author Magazine * "Quirky and engaging." -Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail * "Deonandan celebrates the dignity of the common people." -Barbara Mujica, Americas Magazine
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